Overview
- Senators voted 60–40 to begin debate on a House-passed stopgap that would reopen the government into late January alongside three full‑year spending bills, with final passage, House action, and the president’s signature still required.
- The Supreme Court allowed the administration to withhold full November SNAP payments, and the USDA told states to reverse unauthorized full disbursements, leaving aid for roughly 42 million recipients unsettled.
- Flight disruptions escalated after the FAA ordered reduced operations in dozens of markets, with more than 1,000 cancellations reported on both Friday and Saturday and warnings of further cuts if staffing woes persist.
- President Trump proposed shifting ACA subsidies into direct payments to individuals and floated a $2,000 per‑person tariff ‘dividend’, ideas praised by some Republicans and rejected by Democrats, with Treasury indicating they will not be advanced before a funding deal.
- Negotiators explored a framework that would pair short‑term funding with later votes on health‑care subsidies and provisions to restore pay and jobs for furloughed federal workers, as polling shows broad public support for continuing SNAP during the shutdown.