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Government shutdown updates: Judge lays out path for SNAP benefits
The administration could use $5 billion in emergency funds and tariff revenue.
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.
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Rep. Greene criticizes GOP leadership as having no alternative health care plan
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
Trump suggests he'll work with Dems on health care -- once government reopens
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
Trump suggests SNAP funding fix, lays blame on Democrats
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
Schumer says Democrats will introduce bill to extend SNAP, WIC funding
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded Republicans “sit-down and negotiate with us” to reopen the government and address the health care crisis.
“Look, on November 1st, people in more than 30 states are going to be aghast, aghast when they see their bills, and they're going to cry out, and I believe there will be increased pressure on Republicans to negotiate with us,” Schumer said when asked about his strategy to reopen the government.
Asked about the American Federation of Government Workers’ call on lawmakers to pass a clean continuing resolution to turn the lights back on in D.C., Schumer said “We can do both and we need to do both -- have federal workers get paid and negotiate a way to resolve the Americans’ pain in the health care crisis.”
Schumer said Senate Democrats will introduce a bill to extend funding for SNAP and WIC to “make sure no child goes hungry.”
“Trump's not even in the United States, and Senate Republicans are running exactly the same failed play that brought America to its knees,” he said. “Americans are on the brink of a health care crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetimes.”
Schumer said Republicans are “doing nothing. So, we're on the precipice of a historic crisis, and Republicans don't even want to talk to us. Trump, not even in the U.S.,” he said.
He said Trump’s “main priority” is his new White House ballroom.
“Can you believe that? You can’t make this stuff up when people are suffering. What kind of president is this?” he added.
-ABC News’ Lauren Peller