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

A notice on top of its website says "the well has run dry."

Last Updated: October 26, 2025, 5:58 PM EDT

The Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website warning that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits won't be issued on Nov. 1.

"Bottom line, the well has run dry," reads the notice, which also blames Democrats for the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution. The Senate has continued to fail to advance bill that would reopen the government until Nov. 21. The House remains out of session next week.

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Oct 24, 2025, 3:21 PM EDT

House cancels votes next week

The House will officially be out of session again next week amid the government shutdown -- scrapping votes for the fifth week in a row. The lower chamber held its last vote on Sept. 19.

During the Friday afternoon pro forma session, the clerk read a message from the speaker of the House designating Monday, Oct. 27 through Sunday, Nov. 2 as a "district work period."

Speaker Mike Johnson has kept his chamber on a 48-hour notice return, meaning the House will be out unless there is Senate action to resolve the government shutdown.

The US Capitol Building is seen from the National Mall during a government shutdown in Washington, October 24, 2025.
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There are no committee hearings or markups scheduled in the House next week.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

Oct 24, 2025, 9:21 AM EDT

Federal workers missing 1st full paycheck

The ongoing government shutdown is hitting thousands of federal workers on Friday.

More than 500,000 federal workers are missing their first full paycheck on Friday as the government shutdown hits Day 24.

The Senate is out, so this shutdown will continue into Monday.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

The Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol is seen between autumn tree leaves on day 23 of the government shutdown, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington.
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Oct 23, 2025, 4:38 PM EDT

Senators bemoan lack of momentum on Capitol Hill to end shutdown

As lawmakers head home for the weekend – ensuring the shutdown will drag into the next week – another week has passed on Capitol Hill with little, if any, progress to reopen the government.

Asked whether there was anything that occurred this week that brings Congress any closer to reopening government, the resounding consensus was no.

"No, none," Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told ABC News. "I think we're at an impasse. I think we're going to go into November. It's horrible."

"I can't tell you how wrong it is, I think, to make people suffer because of it, and people are suffering," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said. "I mean, I know that in this building, it's like, oh, this is just a political game. This is not a game."

The Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol is seen between autumn tree leaves on day 23 of the government shutdown, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington.
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Despite the lack of momentum to end the shutdown, Lummis does not believe that President Donald Trump needs to get more involved to break the stalemate.

"I think that this is something that the Congress needs to handle among itself. We know what they're asking for," Lummis said. "It's $1.5 trillion and they want to put a band aid on Obamacare when Obamacare needs to be addressed for its underlying inability to deliver affordable health care. So there's a lot of work to do."

-ABC News' John Parkinson

Oct 23, 2025, 1:27 PM EDT

Senate fails to advance bill that would have provided pay for some federal workers during shutdown

The Senate failed to advance Sen. Ron Johnson's, R-Wis., bill that would have provided pay to some federal workers during the shutdown on Thursday by a vote of 55-45. It would have needed 60 votes to advance.

Democratic Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., voted with all Republicans to advance the bill. All other Democrats voted against it, effectively blocking it from advancing.

Majority Leader John Thune flipped his vote to a no at the end of the roll call, a procedural move that allows the legislation to be more quickly reconsidered in the future.

The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is visible, October 22, 2025 in Washington.
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There are a few Senators who have been consistently voting against their party during the repeated effort by Republicans over the past few weeks to pass a clean funding bill that would reopen the government through Nov. 21. This vote broke differently. Most of those senators voted with their party on this bill.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who has been opposing the short-term funding bill, voted to advance Johnson's bill today. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Independent Angus King, who have been consistently voting for the stopgap funding bill despite Democratic opposition to it, stuck with Democrats and voted to oppose this legislation.

Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote both for the short-term funding bill and this bill.

ABC News' Allison Pecorin

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