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 on Thursday adjourned until Monday afternoon, which will mark the 34th day of the government shutdown.
Meanwhile, a federal judge has laid out a path for the administration to fund SNAP benefits, which ran out on Saturday, saying the administration could tap more than $5 billion in emergency funds, as well as a much larger pot of tariff revenue collected by the Agriculture Department to fund the program.
The Senate will convene at 3 p.m. ET on Monday as the government shutdown drags on.
Monday marks day 27 of the shutdown, which is now the second-longest in history. The longest occurred during President Donald Trump's first term, lasting 35 days through December 2018 into January 2019.
The House remains out of session this week.
People relax on the grass near the Capitol building, weeks into the continuing government shutdown, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 26, 2025.
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Oct 23, 2025, 1:27 PM EDT
Senate fails to advance bill that would have provided pay for some federal workers during shutdown
The Senate failed to advance Sen. Ron Johnson's, R-Wis., bill that would have provided pay to some federal workers during the shutdown on Thursday by a vote of 55-45. It would have needed 60 votes to advance.
Democratic Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., voted with all Republicans to advance the bill. All other Democrats voted against it, effectively blocking it from advancing.
Majority Leader John Thune flipped his vote to a no at the end of the roll call, a procedural move that allows the legislation to be more quickly reconsidered in the future.
The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is visible, October 22, 2025 in Washington.
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There are a few Senators who have been consistently voting against their party during the repeated effort by Republicans over the past few weeks to pass a clean funding bill that would reopen the government through Nov. 21. This vote broke differently. Most of those senators voted with their party on this bill.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who has been opposing the short-term funding bill, voted to advance Johnson's bill today. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Independent Angus King, who have been consistently voting for the stopgap funding bill despite Democratic opposition to it, stuck with Democrats and voted to oppose this legislation.
Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote both for the short-term funding bill and this bill.
ABC News' Allison Pecorin
Oct 23, 2025, 4:38 PM EDT
Senators bemoan lack of momentum on Capitol Hill to end shutdown
As lawmakers head home for the weekend – ensuring the shutdown will drag into the next week – another week has passed on Capitol Hill with little, if any, progress to reopen the government.
Asked whether there was anything that occurred this week that brings Congress any closer to reopening government, the resounding consensus was no.
"No, none," Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., told ABC News. "I think we're at an impasse. I think we're going to go into November. It's horrible."
"I can't tell you how wrong it is, I think, to make people suffer because of it, and people are suffering," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said. "I mean, I know that in this building, it's like, oh, this is just a political game. This is not a game."
The Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol is seen between autumn tree leaves on day 23 of the government shutdown, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington.
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Despite the lack of momentum to end the shutdown, Lummis does not believe that President Donald Trump needs to get more involved to break the stalemate.
"I think that this is something that the Congress needs to handle among itself. We know what they're asking for," Lummis said. "It's $1.5 trillion and they want to put a band aid on Obamacare when Obamacare needs to be addressed for its underlying inability to deliver affordable health care. So there's a lot of work to do."