The Senate is now adjourned until Monday afternoon, which will mark the 34th day of the government shutdown.
The Senate is now adjourned until Monday afternoon, which will mark the 34th day of the government shutdown.
A spokesperson said Thune’s position is “unchanged.”
Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution to end what is now the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history.
The Senate adjourned until Monday afternoon, which will mark the 34th day of the government shutdown.
Starting Nov. 1, SNAP benefits won’t go out and open enrollment begins for Affordable Care Act plans with premiums expected to rise.
Key Headlines
Here’s how the news is developing.
21 minutes ago
Thune remains against ending Senate filibuster
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s position against eliminating the Senate filibuster has not changed, a spokesperson told ABC News Friday, after Trump on Thursday called on Republicans to go “nuclear” and eliminate the filibuster to pass the Republican funding bill and reopen the government.
“Leader Thune’s position on the importance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged,” spokesperson Ryan Wrasse said in a statement, after Thune ruled out the gambit earlier this month as a path to end the shutdown.
Thune has long stood firm in his position against abolishing the time-honored chamber procedure that requires consensus from 60 of the Senate’s 100 members to advance most legislation — as recently as Oct. 10, saying that the legislative tactic has long “protected” the upper chamber from operating as a majority party monopoly.
-ABC News’ Isabella Murray, Lauren Peller and John Parkinson
1 hour and 20 minutes ago
Johnson dodges question about Trump’s request to end filibuster
Speaker Johnson was asked about Trump’s social media post that called on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster to end the shutdown.
Johnson said that he saw the post, but didn’t talk to Trump about it.
“What you are seeing an expression of the president’s anger at the situation,” he said. “He just desperately wants the government to be reopened.”
The speaker reiterated that the filibuster is a Senate matter.
1 hour and 23 minutes ago
Agriculture Secretary Rollins denies USDA has money to help pay for SNAP
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters that reports that the USDA has money to help pay for SNAP benefits is “absolutely false.”
“It is a lie,” she said.
Rollins acknowledged that the agency has a contingency fund, but it does not cover “even a half” of the $9.2 billion required for SNAP benefits.
“It is only allowed to flow if the underlying program is funded,” she claimed.
1 hour and 43 minutes ago
Johnson blames Democrats for end of SNAP benefits
House Speaker Mike Johnson again on Friday laid the blame of the pending end to SNAP benefit funding on Democrats and contended that the Trump “administration has done all it can.”
“The Democrats continue with their political games in Washington,” he said, adding that the Senate Democrats have “abandoned their post.”
Johnson has not called the House back into session in over a month.
He reiterated that the Democratic senators needed to come and pass the clean CR bill.
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