USDA says SNAP benefits won't be issued on Nov. 1

While signing an executive order on Monday, President Donald Trump said that "we are speaking with Democrats" regarding the ongoing government shutdown and that "some good things could happen with health care."

"Just hang in there, because I think a lot of good things could happen, and that could also pertain to health care," Trump said.

Trump said, "if we made the right deal," then he would make a deal with Democrats regarding the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

"If we made the right deal, I’d make a deal. Sure," Trump said on Monday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday reversing an order from former President Joe Biden, allowing for mining in Alaska for "extraordinary resource potential."

"On day one, he signed in a very important executive order unleashing Alaska's extraordinary resource potential. And this is part of the continuation. There's a number of things that have already happened with Alaska that are moving forward. There's more to come. But big milestone today in reversing this Biden-era decision about the Ambler Road," Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said on Monday.

Ambler Mining District in Alaska has "some of the richest mining deposits," Burgum said.

"This was something that should have been long operating and making billions of dollars for our country and supplying a lot of energy and minerals and everything else that we're talking about," Trump said.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration is "working very hard to move the ball forward as quickly as we can" as the ceasefire talks are underway.

"Technical talks" are ongoing and joined by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, she said during a press briefing Monday afternoon.

"[President Donald Trump] wants to see a ceasefire. He wants to see the hostages released, and the technical teams are discussing that as we speak, to ensure that the environment is perfect to release those hostages," Leavitt said. "They're going over the lists of both the Israeli hostages and also the political prisoners who will be released."

Leavitt did not address how long the White House expects technical talks to last or if Trump is providing Hamas a new timeline to reach an agreement on his peace plan.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to a judge blocking the Trump administration's attempt to deploy members of the California National Guard to Portland, Oregon, calling the judge "untethered in reality."

The judge, a Trump appointee, ordered that the conditions in Portland were "not significantly violent or disruptive" to justify federal takeover of the National Guard, and that the president's claims about the city were "simply untethered to the facts."

Leavitt also said Trump "wants to help these local leaders who have been completely ineffective in securing their own cities."

"It's a shame that we see in some cities that their mayors are refusing to cooperate because they don't like Donald Trump," Leavitt added.