Some 1.1 million Bay State residents who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to put food on the table could receive their delayed benefits as soon as Saturday, the Healey administration has said.

In a statement, the Democratic governor said she’d ordered SNAP recipients to receive full November benefits even as a legal dispute over the aid unfurls in federal court.

The Trump administration said Friday that it was working to comply with a federal court’s order to provide full November benefits during the shutdown, Politico reported, citing an internal memo.

The Agriculture Department said in its memo that “later today” it will “complete the processes necessary” to make funds for the SNAP program available, the online news outlet reported.

In an email, a Healey administration spokesperson said the state had received notice from the USDA on Friday afternoon that it would complete preparations on Friday to send out full benefits for November.

The state’s Department of Transitional Assistance, which manages the program, is now directing our payment processor to process these payments," the administration’s spokesperson said.

As a result, Healey’s office expects benefits to start appearing on electronic benefit cards by Saturday. The state does not receive the funds directly from the federal government, the spokesperson said.

In her statement, Healey said President Donald Trump "should never have put the American people in this position. Families shouldn’t have had to go hungry because their president chose to put politics over their lives."

The announcement from the Republican White House came after it appealed a federal court’s Thursday order directing it to make full payments.

It will continue to pursue that appeal, according to NBC News.

The U.S. Justice Department, which represents the USDA, argued in its appeal to a Boston-based appeals court that U.S. District Judge John McConnell had overstepped his authority when he issued his order on Thursday afternoon, according to CNN.

McConnell had ordered the White House to provide the additional funding by the end of the day on Friday, tapping unused tariff funds meant for child nutrition programs, according to CNN.

That pot of money currently has nearly $17 billion in it, the government has said.

Healey said Friday that she was “grateful to the people across Massachusetts who continue to step up and help their neighbors in this time of need.”

“I also want to thank Attorney General [Andrea J.] Campbell for going to court to oppose this unprecedented, illegal decision,” Healey continued. “And I want to thank our team at the Department of Transitional Assistance for working through these challenging circumstances and maintaining their focus on serving the people of Massachusetts.”

SNAP beneficiaries can find more information here and families facing hunger and those looking to help can find more information here.