A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP, following a week of indecision about the program’s fate during the government shutdown.

The Rhode Island judge said the administration must tap emergency funds by tomorrow, but it is still unclear when the benefits will hit the Lone Star Cards that Texas participants use to purchase food at grocery retailers.

“The defendants failed to consider the practical consequences associated with this decision to only partially fund SNAP,”  U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. said in a ruling from the bench after a brief hearing, according to the Associated Press. “They knew that there would be a long delay in paying partial SNAP payments and failed to consider the harms individuals who rely on those benefits would suffer.”

Benefits for SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also called food stamps, will be released on a staggered basis, starting with those who were first to miss their payments and continuing until the Texas Health and Human Services Commission catches up to its normal schedule, said Wesley Story of Feeding Texas, the state association of food banks.

HHSC has given no timeline on when these payments will reach the 3.5 million Texans enrolled in SNAP, 1.7 million of whom are children. Feeding Texas said that once USDA posts information for issuing benefits, the money will take at least three days to become available.

By Thursday, about 460,000 Texas households were supposed to get SNAP benefits at the start of the month, but had not received them, according to a spokesperson for Propel, an app that helps SNAP enrollees manage their benefits. HHSC has not responded to questions about how many Texans have not received benefits.

The recent order is the latest in a back-and-forth about whether SNAP will be funded during the shutdown and by how much.

Meanwhile, food assistance has been delayed for more than 8.7 million households across the country as of Thursday, after benefits paused on the first of the month.

Feeding Texas CEO Celia Cole called the situation “deeply concerning” in a Tuesday statement.

“SNAP is a lifeline for millions of Texans. Without it, families are forced to make impossible choices between putting food on the table, paying rent, or affording medicine. These decisions have lasting consequences for their health and our food economy,” the statement said.