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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Trump slaps 25% tariff on medium and heavy-duty truck imports
In a post on social media on Monday, President Donald Trump said that all medium and heavy-duty truck imports into the U.S. would be tariffed at 25% starting on Nov. 1.
"Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks coming into the United States from other Countries will be Tariffed at the Rate of 25%. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" the president wrote.
This comes after Trump said in September that he'd enact that tariff on all "Heavy (Big!) Trucks" made abroad on Oct. 1.
-ABC News' Isabella Murray
Trump says he’d be ‘happy’ to negotiate with Democrats if they’ll reopen the government
Trump said after the Senate failed again to pass a short-term GOP funding bill, that he'd be "happy" to negotiate with Democrats on any of their demands if they'd support Republican efforts to reopen the government.
“I am happy to work with the Democrats on their Failed Healthcare Policies, or anything else, but first they must allow our Government to re-open," Trump wrote on his social media platform.
"In fact, they should open our Government tonight!" he added.
-ABC News’ Isabella Murray
Schumer refutes Trump’s claim the White House is negotiating with Democrats
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer released a statement shortly after Trump said there are active negotiations ongoing between the White House and Democrats, refuting the president’s claim.
“Trump’s claim isn’t true — but if he’s finally ready to work with Democrats, we’ll be at the table," Schumer said.
Schumer is responding to Trump's saying that "we have a negotiation going on right now with the Democrats that could lead to very good things. And I'm talking about good things with regard to health care.”
Schumer in his statement said that if Trump is ready to talk, Democrats are happy to engage.
“For months, Democrats have been calling on Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans to come to the table and work with us to deliver lower costs and better healthcare for the American people," Schumer said in a statement. "If President Trump and Republicans are finally ready to sit down and get something done on healthcare for American families, Democrats will be there — ready to make it happen.”
-ABC News’ Allison Pecorin
Senate fails to pass GOP funding bill to end shutdown
The Senate failed to advance the Republicans’ clean government funding bill that would extend government funding through Nov. 21 by a vote of 52-42. The government shutdown will continue into tomorrow.
The legislation would have needed 60 votes to advance.
Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman and independent Angus King voted in favor of the bill. Republican Sen. Rand Paul voted against it.
No other senators flipped their vote. There were five absences: GOP Sens. John Curtis, John Kennedy and Thom Tillis, and Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich and Jacky Rosen.
Aides have told ABC News that the Senate is expected to take the same two votes again tomorrow for a sixth time. There is at this stage no indication that the outcome will be different when the vote is called tomorrow.
-ABC News’ Allison Pecorin