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

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

ByKevin Shalvey, Megan Forrester, Ivan Pereira, and Alexandra Hutzler
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.

Key Headlines

Here's how the news is developing.
Oct 07, 2025, 12:51 PM EDT

Trump says 'substantial' job cuts will occur if shutdown continues

Trump said that if the government shutdown continues, there will be "substantial" job cuts and that "a lot of those jobs will never come back."

When asked about what programs will be eliminated, Trump said "We'll be announcing it pretty soon," saying that he would "be able to tell you that in four or five days."

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, October 7, 2025.
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"We have a lot of things that we're going to eliminate and permanently eliminate," Trump said while meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Trump said Democrats have handed him the opportunity to "take out billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse" on a "silver platter."

Oct 07, 2025, 12:49 PM EDT

Trump calls shutdown a 'kamikaze attack' by Democrats

Trump called the ongoing government shutdown a "kamikaze attack" by Democrats, saying "They're the ones that started it."

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, October 7, 2025.
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"This is like a kamikaze attack. They have nothing to lose," Trump while taking questions before a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Oct 07, 2025, 12:36 PM EDT

Trump on furloughed employees getting back pay: 'Depends on who we are talking about'

Asked whether furloughed federal workers should receive back pay after the government shutdown, Trump replied that it "depends on who we are talking about.

"But for the most part, we're going to take care of our people. There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we'll take care of them in a different way," Trump said while meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Oct 07, 2025, 10:48 AM EDT

Johnson says he talked to Trump 'at length' ahead of Senate vote on Tuesday

Speaker Mike Johnson said that he spoke with President Donald Trump "at length" on Monday regarding the government shutdown ahead of the Senate's vote on Tuesday, saying the president "wants to solve the problem."

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson holds a press conference about the government shutdown at the US Capitol in Washington, October 6, 2025.
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Johnson was asked about the president's comments on Monday, when he said that "we are speaking with Democrats" and that "some good things could happen with health care."

"The president is a dealmaker. He likes to figure these things out and work toward solutions," Johnson said during a press conference on Tuesday.

But Johnson said that discussions regarding health care will not happen until "the Democrats stop inflicting pain on the American people and turn the lights back on Congress and get everybody back to work."

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