Government shutdown updates: Senate vote marks step towards ending federal shutdown

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that no SNAP benefits will go out to Americans until after the government reopens -- a day after the Department of Agriculture said in court it would make partial payments.

The president posted on social media that those benefits "will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!"

ABC News asked both the White House and the USDA for clarification.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow

President Donald Trump said Republicans are more likely to lose next year's midterm elections if they don't eliminate the Senate filibuster.

Trump has now called for eliminating the filibuster in four of the last five days in order to bring the government shutdown to an end. But so far, Senate Majority Leader John Thune has rejected Trump's request.

"The Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don't do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!), because it will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics being able to block everything by withholding their votes," Trump wrote in a social media post.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow

Senators will once again vote on Tuesday whether to reopen the government. This will be the 14th time that senators cast votes on a clean, House-passed bill that would reopen the government until Nov. 21.

It would need 60 votes to advance. So far, in previous votes, Sen. Rand Paul has been the lone Republican to vote against this bill and Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman and independent Angus King have voted for it. Republicans remain in the hunt for five additional Democrats to flip sides and vote to advance this bill.

Though there have been murmurs on Capitol Hill of promising talks between rank-and-file members, no other Senate Democrats have said they intend to switch their vote.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

Now in its 35th day, the U.S. government shutdown has tied the record for the longest-ever closure of the federal government, matching the duration of a closure that began in December 2018, during President Donald Trump's first term.

As the shutdown continues, the Trump administration said it would only partially fund food assistance programs that tens of millions of Americans rely on.

Meanwhile, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, is set to hold a briefing at 1 p.m. ET where she will take questions from the media.