The president proposed the idea on his Truth Social media platform Sunday, five days after his Republican Party lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere.

In the newly released emails, Epstein wrote that Donald Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein's house with a victim of sex trafficking.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only one of the nine justices to say she would have revived the lower court orders immediately.

Among those also pardoned were Sidney Powell, an attorney who promoted baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election.

Pennsylvania was among several states that disseminated SNAP benefits to recipients on Friday following a federal judge's order.

The administration is demanding that states reverse the full benefits issued under recent court orders. The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings.

A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The food assistance payments had previously been frozen by the Trump administration amid the federal government shutdown.

The court wrangling prolonged weeks of uncertainty for the food program that serves about 1 in 8 Americans, mostly with lower incomes.

Delaware will start giving SNAP recipients partial benefits, but a federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to restore full payments.

Pennsylvania officials are asking the federal government to allow them to use a swifter method to calculate each household’s partial payment.

After federal court rulings, SNAP will issue November benefits to over 2 million Pennsylvanians — but at only half the usual amount.

The USDA has a $5 billion contingency fund for the program, but the Trump administration had reversed an earlier agency plan to use that money to keep SNAP running.

Rallygoers were concerned that despite two judges’ rulings calling for funds to be restored, SNAP benefits will still be delayed and in danger amid the government shutdown.

The USDA plans to freeze the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a cornerstone of the nation's social safety net relied upon by 1 in 8 Americans for groceries.