Government shutdown updates: Judge lays out path for SNAP benefits

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the shutdown will delay federal spending and have a negative effect on the economy that will mostly, but not entirely, reverse once the shutdown ends.

The report, issued Wednesday, found that the shutdown will reduce annualized real GDP growth. After the shutdown, real GDP will be temporarily higher than it would have been otherwise, the report said.

Although most of the decline in real GDP will be recovered eventually, the CBO estimates the shutdown will cost between $7 billion and $14 billion.

The CBO estimates that the output lost because furloughed employees worked fewer weeks during the shutdown would not be recovered.

By the end of 2026, the reduction in hours worked by furloughed federal employees would result in a cumulative loss of real GDP of $7 billion in the four-week shutdown scenario, $11 billion in the six-week scenario, and $14 billion in the eight-week scenario, according to the report.

-ABC News' Zunaira Zaki

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene -- who has been critical of Speaker Mike Johnson’s shutdown strategy -- spoke up on a private GOP conference call Tuesday and urged leadership to bring the House back as well as articulate a plan to address the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits.

The congresswoman further explained publicly what she said on the private call, saying she disagreed with the House being out of session.

"And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans. Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call. Apparently, I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!” she wrote in a post on X.

ABC News' Lauren Peller and Justin Gomez

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One during his Asia tour, President Donald Trump suggested he's willing to meet with Democrats on health care after the federal government reopens.

“I’d say, open up the government and we’ll work it out,” he told reporters.

After the government reopens, Trump suggested he’d work together with Democrats on proposals aimed at lowering profits for insurance companies.

"That's something I think that could come out of this with the Democrats," he told reporters. "Work with the Democrats, because right now, the insurance companies are making too much money, and they're making a fortune, and the health care, Obamacare, is … poor, and the premiums are ridiculous."

He added, "I think it's a great time for the Republicans and Democrats to get together and make something that will work and let the insurance companies make money. They're entitled to that, but not the kind of money that they're making."

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

President Donald Trump signaled his administration may find a solution to help fund SNAP food benefits amid the government shutdown, saying "we’re going to get it done," without offering any details on how.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One during his Asia tour, Trump blamed Democrats for putting 42 million low-income Americans at risk of losing critical federal food assistance this weekend.

Trump said about Democrats, "all they had to do was sign," seemingly implying all they had to do was vote for a funding bill to keep benefits from expiring.

More than two dozen states have sued the Trump administration over the USDA’s reversal that it cannot extend SNAP benefits during the shutdown. The agency had said in a contingency plan from late September that it could use contingency funds to help support SNAP.

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa