The Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website warning that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits won't be issued on Nov. 1.
"Bottom line, the well has run dry," reads the notice, which also blames Democrats for the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution. The Senate has continued to fail to advance bill that would reopen the government until Nov. 21. The House remains out of session next week.
White House to continue federal layoffs as shutdown enters 3rd week
The White House Office of Management and Budget wrote on its X account on Tuesday that the Trump administration is "making every preparation" to ride out the government shutdown without caving to Democrats' demands. The agency said it would continue cutting the federal workforce in the meantime.
"Pay the troops, pay law enforcement, continue the RIFs, and wait," the post reads.
The U.S. Capitol during the thirteenth day of the U.S. government shutdown in Washington, October 13, 2025.
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Oct 14, 2025, 8:44 AM EDT
OMB 'working on ways' to get law enforcement paychecks during shutdown
An official for the Office of Management and Budget said they're "working on ways" to get federal law enforcement officers their paychecks amid the ongoing government shutdown.
This development comes after President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he'd identified "all available funds" to pay members of the military on Oct. 15. According to an OMB spokesperson, the funds Trump said he's "identified" to pay members of the military amid the shutdown come from the Defense Department's research and development allocation.
The Capitol is silhouetted by the morning sun as a government shutdown begins its tenth day, in Washington, Oct. 10, 2025.
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The news about law enforcement pay was first reported by Punchbowl News.
-ABC News' Isabella Murray
Oct 13, 2025, 8:55 PM EDT
Mental health and substance abuse staffers fired amid shutdown: Sources
Dozens of employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) were laid off in the wave of government shutdown firings last week, multiple sources told ABC News.
Best known for overseeing the rollout of the 988 suicide prevention hotline, the agency works with state and local governments on mental health and addiction initiatives and gives out billions in grants.
The firings, which began Friday, include widespread layoffs of staff that oversee child, adolescent and family mental health services, sources told ABC News.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has not responded to ABC News' request for comment.
Other staff were recently transferred to other programs in HHS.
While the impacts of these latest firings are still being determined, a source told ABC News the agency was "hard hit."
-ABC News' Jay O'Brien
Oct 11, 2025, 6:04 PM EDT
Coding error leads to CDC employees mistakenly laid off: Official
In the process of laying off large numbers of health employees, the Trump administration mistakenly issued reduction-in-force notices to members of key CDC offices due to a “coding error,” a federal health official told ABC News on Saturday.
Workers involved in responding to Ebola outbreaks in Africa and measles outbreaks in the U.S. are among those who were mistakenly issued reduction-in-force notices, the official said.
A general view of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Sept. 30, 2014.
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An overwhelming amount of staff in the office in charge of putting out the weekly CDC science journal, known as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), were also told that they were let go, two sources told ABC News.
But those employees were also mistakenly cut, the federal health official said.
The MMWR report is dubbed “the voice of CDC” and is widely respected and used by clinicians across the country. It has been the CDC’s standard scientific journal for decades.
The federal health official told ABC News that the employees mistakenly laid off will receive a formal notice rescinding their elimination “eventually,” likely within a matter of days.
The coding errors affected just four offices within CDC, according to the health official, meaning hundreds of HHS employees will still lose their jobs.
