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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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Agriculture Secretary Rollins denies USDA has money to help pay for SNAP
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters that reports that the USDA has money to help pay for SNAP benefits is "absolutely false."
"It is a lie," she said.
Rollins acknowledged that the agency has a contingency fund, but it does not cover "even a half" of the $9.2 billion required for SNAP benefits.
"It is only allowed to flow if the underlying program is funded," she claimed.
Johnson blames Democrats for end of SNAP benefits
House Speaker Mike Johnson again on Friday laid the blame of the pending end to SNAP benefit funding on Democrats and contended that the Trump "administration has done all it can."
"The Democrats continue with their political games in Washington," he said, adding that the Senate Democrats have "abandoned their post."
Johnson has not called the House back into session in over a month.
He reiterated that the Democratic senators needed to come and pass the clean CR bill.
Trump calls for eliminating filibuster to end shutdown
President Donald Trump, in a lengthy social media post on Thursday night, called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster to pass the Republican funding bill and reopen the government.
"It is now time for the Republicans to play their 'TRUMP CARD,' and go for what is called the Nuclear Option -- Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!" Trump posted.
Trump said ending the filibuster was necessary because "DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD "CRAZY."
The president said that while in Asia this week the question he kept getting "was how did the Democrats SHUT DOWN the United States of America, and why did the powerful Republicans allow them to do it?"
"The fact is, in flying back, I thought a great deal about that question, WHY?" he added.
Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader John Thune -- who Trump praised in his post -- rejected the idea of eliminating the filibuster.
Some Democrats have called for ending the filibuster themselves in the past but faced headwinds from former centrist members -- which Trump pointed to in his post. Trump argued if Republicans don't end it themselves, Democrats will when they return to the majority.
-ABC News' Fritz Farrow
'In this fight until we win': Jeffries
Jeffries continued to hold the Democratic line during the shutdown Thursday, insisting that their demands have not changed throughout the impasse.
"Over the last 30 days, we've said the same thing over and over and over again: We'll sit down with Republicans anytime, anyplace, anywhere, to reopen the government and enact a spending agreement that actually meets the needs of the American people," he said at a news conference.
Jeffries added that Democrats are "in this fight until we win this fight."
As lawmakers are set to receive their paychecks on Nov. 1, Jeffries has refused to reveal whether he will accept his congressional salary during the shutdown.
He told ABC News that each Democrat will have to make an individual decision but he intends to make his plans clear to his constituents in Brooklyn on or before Saturday.
-ABC News' John Parkinson