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

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

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

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

California Democratic Rep. Mark Takano is taking aim at President Trump’s ballroom at the White House -- introducing legislation to prohibit the use of federal funds in its construction during a shutdown.

The White House has previously said that the construction of the ballroom is funded by private donations and that effort would continue during the ongoing government shutdown.

The bill is unlikely to pass in a Congress with Republican majorities in both chambers coupled with the president's veto power.

-ABC News' John Parkinson