In yet another blatant example of judicial activism and lawfare against the will of the American people, U.S. District Judge Myong Joun – a Biden appointee with a well-documented history of blocking President Trump’s agenda – sided with 20 Democrat states and the District of Columbia on Friday, granting a preliminary injunction that halted the Trump administration’s efforts to tie federal food assistance funding to basic common-sense conditions.
The ruling stops the U.S. Department of Agriculture from enforcing requirements on states receiving tens of billions in SNAP (food stamps), school lunch, WIC, and other nutrition program dollars.
Among the blocked conditions: restrictions on promoting “gender ideology,” preventing illegal aliens from accessing taxpayer-funded benefits, and ensuring “fair athletic opportunities” for women and girls.
This is the same Judge Myong Joun who previously blocked Trump administration efforts to reform and downsize the Department of Education, as The Gateway Pundit has reported.
The Trump administration, under Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, has been working to clean up these massive federal programs.
As The Gateway Pundit previously detailed, the USDA put ALL programs under review to ensure only American citizens receive food stamps and other benefits. New requirements from Republican-backed legislation had already reduced SNAP rolls by nearly 4.3 million beneficiaries between January 2025 and January 2026 through basic eligibility enforcement.
The new conditions were straightforward America First policy:
- States had to certify they were not using federal funds to promote gender ideology, including programs that would deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities (i.e., keeping biological males out of girls’ sports).
- States could not allow illegal aliens to obtain taxpayer-funded benefits or create incentives for illegal immigration.
- Broader compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws and Trump executive orders on these issues.
In short, the administration was simply saying: if you want billions in federal food aid, you don’t get to use it to push radical transgender ideology or subsidize illegal immigration on the taxpayers’ dime.
The 20 Democratic states (plus D.C.) sued anyway. They claimed the conditions were “unconstitutional and unlawful roadblocks” threatening “critical nutrition support.” Campbell whined that “these grants are a lifeline” and vowed to fight to protect them.
The Trump administration countered that the requirements would promote sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars, strengthen oversight of obligated funds, and ensure grant recipients actually comply with federal law.
Judge Joun agreed with the Democrats and blocked enforcement of the conditions (at least temporarily). He said he would issue a full memorandum explaining his decision later.
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