WASHINGTON – The ongoing government shutdown is about to become the longest in United States history, even as millions of Americans feel the increasingly painful consequences of the crisis on their daily lives.

The Senate on Tuesday failed to pass for the 14th time a short-term funding measure, all but ensuring the shutdown will surpass the previous 35-day record.

"I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think any of us expected that it would drag on this long," House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said at his daily briefing. "We couldn’t have imagined it’s now tied with the longest shutdown in history."

Though lawmakers have said in recent days that bipartisan negotiations are gaining steam, no deal has emerged yet to reopen the federal government. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, told reporters Monday he’s "optimistic" that the government shutdown could come to an end this week and that lawmakers are "getting close to an off-ramp."

Also on Monday, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers released a tentative framework for a potential deal that would extend expiring the health insurance subsidies that have been at the center of the shutdown debate. The legislation would extend the tax credits, which will sunset at the end of the year, for two years and include guardrails to prevent fraud. It's not clear, however, that the Senate would support the bill.

No major agreement is expected Tuesday, especially while Washington turns its attention to a series of much-anticipated off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and a major ballot initiative in California. Congressional Republicans have marked the contests as a potential turning point in their opponents' shutdown posture, though Democrats have refuted that notion.

Still, Tuesday's shutdown vote results show how far apart Republicans and Democrats remain, especially amid widespread questions about whether the more than 40 million Americans reliant on food assistance could starve this month. Following a judge's order, the Trump administration said Monday that it would send out only partial payments to beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

"Providing partial SNAP benefits is a floor, not a ceiling," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said Monday. "The administration must do more."

The uncertainty for food insecure families is one of a number of pain points amping up the pressure on lawmakers to come together and reach a compromise. Funding for heat assistance is expiring, too. Flight delays are mounting. Military wages are still in flux. And lawmakers' own employees are going without pay, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of other federal workers who've been furloughed.

"There are no winners in a government shutdown," Thune said Monday. "But there are plenty of losers."

Thune says lawmakers discuss new short-term funding deadline

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday the Senate could change the deadline for a short-term spending to reopen the government because the House-passed deadline of Nov. 21 is fast approaching.

Thune said lawmakers are still discussing the best date to give lawmakers time to approve full-year spending bills. Options include a spending extension into early 2026. But Thune said “nobody” wants to keep the same spending levels for an entire fiscal year.

If lawmakers in both chambers agree to a date, the Senate could vote on it and then send it back to the House for ratification.

“There is a conversation about what the next deadline should be,” Thune said. “The date is something that is still being discussed.”

What are grocery buddies helping buy food for SNAP recipients?

Neighbors are helping fellow community members nationwide, signing up to be a grocery buddy and paying for food as SNAP recipients and others have lost their benefits during the government shutdown.

People are connecting through social media posts or grassroots efforts within communities to provide food assistance, and a brother-sister pair also launched a website that can link up people nationally.

Many of those participating also say they will continue to do so after partial or full SNAP benefits resume. The Trump administration has said SNAP benefits will be partially paid in November.

- Betty Lin-Fisher

U.S. airspace could be shut down if government shutdown continues: Transportation secretary

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told ABC News over the weekend that he is prepared to shut down U.S. airspace if the shutdown drags on and produces significant safety concerns. "We will delay, we will cancel, any kind of flight across the national airspace to make sure people are safe," he said.

Air traffic controllers and other safety-critical employees are working without pay while the government is shut down, and advocates have warned since the shutdown started that situation becomes more untenable the longer those employees go without a paycheck.

While they will receive back pay when the shutdown ends, air traffic control union officials have said that their members may need to find other sources of income to bridge the gap in their families finances. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, air traffic controllers were largely credited with helping bring the stalemate to an end as flight delays and cancellations increased on the 35th day.

Staffing issues have not been a major source of flight delays so far since the shutdown began, but the Federal Aviation Administration, which was understaffed long before the current funding lapse, routinely slows air traffic rates through airspace with limited controller capacity, and those kinds of isolated delays have occurred in various locations throughout the shutdown.

- Zach Wichter

White House says partial SNAP benefits will go out

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters the administration is working to distribute partial SNAP food benefits as ordered by a federal court, despite Trump’s social media post that raised questions about those payments.

“The administration is fully complying with the court order,” Leavitt said.

But she said the contingency fund for payments holds only about half the $9 billion needed for monthly benefits. She said it would take time for officials to determine how to tap the fund designated for emergencies such as wars to provide partial benefits.

“The Department of Agriculture put out guidance to states today about how to get that money to recipients of SNAP,” Leavitt said. “But it’s going to take some time.”

In regards to the president's post on Truth Social, Leavitt said the president does not want to have to tap into the fund in the future and that was what he was referring to in his social media post.

Jeffries believes shutdown compromise more likely to come from Senate

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries praised work from two House Democrats, Tom Suozzi of New York and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, to come up with a bipartisan path out of the shutdown. The pair teamed up with two House Republicans, Don Bacon of Nebraska and Jeff Hurd of Colorado, to release proposed principles for a compromise as the shutdown wages on.

The proposed principles include a two-year extension of health insurance subsidies and an income cap somewhere between $200,000 and $400,00 for the benefits. The subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of 2025, have been a major sticking point for Democrats.

Jeffries said at a Tuesday press conference that Suozzi "is a great leader" trying to find a bipartisan path forward, especially when it comes to the health insurance subsidies.

However, Jeffries also said he doesn't believe traditional House Republicans are "serious about doing anything meaningful."

"It seems to me more likely that if there's a bipartisan agreement to emerge, it will emerge from the Senate, not the House," Jeffries said.

Asked when he last spoke with House Majority Leader Mike Johnson, Jeffries said they had "a brief conversation last week."

Nonprofits call for Trump to resume SNAP funding

The National Council of Nonprofits, one of the groups that won a judge’s temporary order to extend SNAP food aid during the shutdown, decried Trump’s refusal to continue providing benefits.

“Using food assistance as a political tool is reprehensible and must not stand,” said Diane Yentl, CEO of the nonprofit group. “The court’s order is clear – the federal government must act urgently to provide food assistance during the shutdown.”

U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration on Oct. 31 to provide benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from a contingency fund, which holds about half the $9 billion needed during a typical month. Payments halted Nov. 1.

But Trump argued in a social media post on Tuesday that government lawyers didn’t think they could pay partial benefits. He directed them to seek guidance from McConnell and another judge in Massachusetts who ordered the benefits to continue.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slams House Speaker, Republicans on ‘The View’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on “The View” on Tuesday, taking issue with her colleagues in Congress and mainly House Speaker Mike Johnson over the ongoing government shutdown.

While Greene said she does still “love” President Donald Trump and “that’s OK” if he’s upset with her over calling out fellow Republicans, the Georgia congresswoman’s main problem is with Johnson.

“Here’s something you may all not know about me: I think a lot of people on the Left are learning that when I ran for Congress in 2020, I ran criticizing Republicans and Democrats equally,” Greene said, citing her working-class background and experience running a family construction company.

“The government has failed all of us and it purely disgusts me,” Greene said. “The worst thing that I just can’t get over is (Congress is) not working now and I put that criticism directly on the Speaker of the House.”

Greene continued, telling the co-hosts that "all the people sitting in this audience, they go to work every day, people at home watching the show, they go to work every day. Ladies, you go to work every day.”

"It is an embarrassment to me that we're not in session and getting paid," Greene added, according to ABC News.

- Jay Stahl

Senate fails again to reopen government

The Senate failed for the 14th time to advance House-passed legislation to reopen the government on the day the shutdown tied the longest in history.

The 54-44 vote fell short of 60 votes needed under Senate rules to advance the bill that would have provided short-term funding through Nov. 21.

Three senators who caucus with Democrats – Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada nad John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, and independent Sen. Angus King of Maine – have consistently voted with Republicans.

But GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky opposes the measure for continuing to spend too much. That leaves Republicans needing five Democrats, who have insisted on increasing health care funding for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, to reopen the government.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, said he was “optimistic” the handful of Democrats needed to approve the bill could begin peeling away this week, after Tuesday's state and local elections nationwide.

Trump does an about-face on SNAP benefit payout

President Donald Trump appeared to reject his administration’s plan to partially pay out SNAP benefits, saying in a social media missive on Tuesday morning that the program for low-income Americans would only be funded when the government reopens.

“SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous term in office (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly 'handed' to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!” Trump said.

Trump sent the message just ahead of the latest round of voting in the Senate on legislation to reopen the government, and it was not immediately clear how USDA would respond.

The administration told a federal court on Monday in a legal filing that it would use funds from a contingency fund to cover a $4.65 billion payment for reduced SNAP benefits for American households. USDA says the full program takes $9.2 billion to administer.

Former OMB chief criticizes Trump position of 'my way or the highway'

Shalanda Young, a former budget chief during the Biden administration, told "The Briefing with Michael Waldman" podcast that Republicans should be governing rather than campaigning to end the shutdown.

Young, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the Trump administration needs to move past the partisan "getting elected" phase and toward governing.

"That means sitting down with Democrats and finding a way out of this," Young said. "It does not mean just talking on television and saying my way or the highway."

Americans rethink holiday travel plans: US Travel Association

The U.S. Travel Association warned in a letter to congressional leaders that the industry has already lost $4 billion from the shutdown and travelers are rethinking holiday plans.

The association, which represents 500 companies and organizations, urged approval of a temporary funding measure to resume paying essential government workers such as air-traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers, who are working without paychecks.

"Thanksgiving should be about spending time with family, not worrying about flight disruptions or canceled plans," said Geoff Freeman, the association’s CEO. "The damage from this shutdown is growing by the hour with 60% of Americans reconsidering their travel plans."

Congress ties record for longest shutdown in US history

The shutdown tied for the longest in U.S. history as it went into its 35th day on Tuesday.

The other 35-day shutdown took place from December 2018 to January 2019 during Trump's first term. This current shutdown will become the longest ever if it continues into day 36 on Wednesday.

Over the last five decades, every president except George W. Bush and Joe Biden has weathered at least a few-day shutdown. During their tenures, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama all experienced shutdowns lasting more than two weeks.

- Natalie Alund

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson blames NYC Mamdani movement for shutdown

Johnson is tying the enthusiasm of many New Yorkers for Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to the federal government shutdown. In an appearance on Fox News on Monday, Johnson noted Democratic leaders in Washington are New Yorkers, and said the support for Mamdani made them fear backing a bill that would have kept the government open.

"We know that Mamdani is, is expected to win the mayor's office," Johnson said. "That terrifies the establishment in Washington. Remember you have two New Yorkers in charge of both chambers."

Schumer leads the Democratic minority in the Senate, while New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries heads the Democratic minority in the House. New York City's mayoral election is taking place Tuesday.

"They're worried about the political retribution from the radical left activists in their party, more than they're worried about an extended government shutdown that hurts real Americans," Johnson said.

Johnson repeated the argument in a post on X on Tuesday: "Schumer is TERRIFIED of his radical Marxist base — led by the next Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani — which has COMPLETELY taken over the Democrat Party."

Democrats refused to support a Republican bill that would have kept the government open because Republicans wouldn't extend subsidies that reduce health insurance premiums for millions of Americans. The subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2025.

Trump's latest argument for eliminating the filibuster: winning the midterm elections

Trump has been pressuring Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster and put forward a new argument for doing so on Tuesday: winning the midterms and the 2028 presidential election.

The threshold for legislation to make it to the Senate floor is 60 votes. Republicans need five more Democrats to side with them to reopen the government, unless they give in to Trump’s demands and eliminate the filibuster.

Trump said Tuesday that upcoming elections will be "rightfully brutal" for the GOP if it does not eliminate the legislative hurdle.

"The Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don’t do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!), because it will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics being able to block everything by withholding their votes," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Republicans' majority in Congress is in danger, and surveys this week showed Trump's approval rating dropping.

"If we do terminate the Filibuster, we will get EVERYTHING approved, like no Congress in History," Trump said.

Trump administration to use emergency funds to partially pay for SNAP

The Trump administration said it plans to partially fund SNAP after two federal judges ruled the U.S. Department of Agriculture must use its contingency funds to cover food stamps during the government shutdown.

In a federal court filing Monday, the administration said the USDA is complying with the order and "will fulfill its obligation to expend the full amount of SNAP contingency funds today."

Johnson says he hopes election will change shutdown discussions

Johnson on Monday said he hopes that Democrats will be willing to pass the short-term funding bill after Tuesday’s closely-watched elections.

The gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as the New York City mayoral race are key elections that could be an early signal for the 2026 midterm elections.

Currently, the House-passed short-term funding bill would reopen the government until Nov. 21. Democrats in the Senate have blocked the bill from passing as they push for expanded healthcare subsidies to be included in the spending agreement.

Johnson said that GOP leaders are "mindful of the calendar" and it’s a matter that they’re "giving all of our attention to." The House Speaker has previously said he will not bring his chamber back into session until the government shutdown has ended.

GOP leaders defend filibuster amid pressure from Trump

As Trump continues to call for the Senate to end the filibuster so they can reopen the government, Johnson said the rule is an "important safeguard" for lawmakers.

"I understand desperate times call for desperate measures. I also understand that traditionally we’ve seen that as an important safeguard," Johnson said at his daily press conference on Monday.

Johnson said he personally spoke "frankly and honestly" with the president about the matter over the weekend, who he said is "very passionate" about the issue.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune made similar comments to reporters hours later.

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