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

A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration on Thursday from rescinding nearly $34 million from the MTA and NYPD designated for counter terrorism, finding the withholding of the money "arbitrary, capricious and a blatant violation of the law."

FEMA cut the funds because, the agency said, New York City is a sanctuary city.

Judge Lewis Kaplan said the MTA is a state agency and not "an instrumentality of New York City."

The judge also noted the transit system has been the target of no fewer than eight attempted terror attacks since 9/11.

Kaplan's order requires the administration to reinstate the bulk of the money, which is split between the MTA and NYPD.

-ABC News' Aaron Katersky

On Day 16 of the federal government shutdown, the Senate is expected to hold a likely doomed vote once again on reopening the government. This will be the 10th time a vote on the GOP's clean continuing resolution is held.

But in addition to the short-term government funding bill, there will also be a procedural vote on a bill that would fund the Department of Defense for the full calendar year. But like the short-term funding bill that the Senate has now rejected nine times, it will need 60 votes to advance.

With this bill, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is daring Democrats to vote against, among other things, funding pay for the troops for the full year. Thune has signaled that, if the Senate does successfully get on to this package Thursday, he'll attempt to affix funding bills for additional agencies to it using regular order on the Senate floor.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel were asked about payments to FBI members during the shutdown and the president reiterated that his stance for not paying what he contended were Democratic agencies and programs.

"We got the people that we want paid, paid, OK," he said. "And we want the FBI paid. We want the military paid. We got the people that we want paid."

"The Democrats, they don't talk about this. We're getting rid of programs that we didn't like but that were negotiated in. But we did," he added. "We're terminating those programs and they're going to be terminated on a permanent basis."

The president referenced the cuts to the Gateway Project by OMB Director Russ Vought.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued an emergency order Wednesday blocking the Trump administration's mass firings, the union representing the thousands of federal workers said.

Illston said the administration was acting without thinking through its decisions, The Associated Press reported.

"It's very much ready, fire, aim on most of these programs, and it has a human cost," she said. It's a human cost that cannot be tolerated."

A group of unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees, sued the administration and asked for a temporary restraining order, contending the firings were illegal.

“This decision affirms that these threatened mass firings are likely illegal and blocks layoff notices from going out,” said AFSCME President Lee Saunders said in a statement.

“Federal workers have already faced enough uncertainty from the administration’s relentless attacks on the important jobs they do to keep us safe and healthy. They deserve respect for the work they do -- not to be treated as political pawns by the billionaires running this administration who see workers as expendable," Saunders added.