USDA says SNAP benefits won't be issued on Nov. 1
A notice on top of its website says "the well has run dry."
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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Furloughs taking place at agency maintaining nuclear stockpile
Furloughs are taking place Monday at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile. Roughly 1,400 employees at NNSA will be given furlough notices and less than 400 workers will remain to safeguard the stockpile, according to a Department of Energy official.
"This morning, America’s nuclear security administration has begun furloughing federal employees due to the Schumer shutdown. I’m in Nevada today to meet with some of these critical workers and to ask Nevada’s leaders to help us end this shutdown," Energy Secretary Chris Wright wrote on X.
-ABC News' Justin Gomez
Johnson claims he'd administer oath to Grijalva 'on the 1st day we come back'
With the House on break for more than a month now, Speaker Mike Johnson insists he will administer the oath of office to Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva after the Senate votes to reopen the government -- resisting calls to swear her in amid the prolonged government shutdown.
"Rep. Grijalva won her race in the I think it was the last week of September after we had already gone out of session, so I will administer the oath to her, hopefully on the first day we come back legislative session," Johnson said. "I'm willing and anxious to do that."
While the question has followed the speaker throughout the shutdown, Johnson has shrugged off the delay -- decried by Democrats -- denying that his decision is related to Grijalva's intent to become the 218th signature on a discharge petition forcing a vote to release the Justice Department's full files on Jeffrey Epstein.
-ABC News' John Parkinson
Government shutdown Day 20: What to expect
The Senate will return on Monday evening to hold its 11th vote on the Republicans' clean funding bill. It will likely fail again.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is standing by his decision to keep the chamber out of session for its fourth consecutive week, telling ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on "This Week" that he refuses to "come back and engage in anything until the government's reopened." Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Republicans have "no interest in doing the business of the American people."
Starting on Monday, all federal courts will no longer have funding to sustain full, paid operations. While judges will continue to serve with pay, members of the nation's 33,000 court staff will either perform limited tasks unpaid or be put on furlough.
-ABC News' Allison Pecorin and Justin Gomez
House will officially be out of session next week
The House has canceled votes for all next week as the government shutdown continues.
During the pro-forma session Friday afternoon, the clerk read a message from the speaker of the House designating Monday, Oct. 20 through Sunday, Oct. 26 "as a district work period."
Earlier Friday, House Republican leaders canceled votes for just Monday.
Members are still on a 48-hour notice to return.
-ABC News' Lauren Peller