The Senate on Monday night passed a bill to fund the federal government through January and end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. CNBC's Emily Wilkins joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss. ...

A record-setting 41-day US government shutdown is on a path to end as soon as Wednesday after the Senate passed a temporary funding measure backed by a group of eight centrist Democrats https://t.co/vE8am9TBZm ...

🇺🇸 JUST IN: The US Senate approves a bill to reopen the US government, now heads to the House for final vote. https://t.co/LIaPGG5sq1 ...

According to POLITICO, the U.S. Senate has reached a bipartisan deal to end the seven-week federal government shutdown. Under the agreement, at least eight Democrats will vote “yes” on procedural motions to advance the funding bill, allowing the government to reopen as soon as this week. The deal includes full-year funding for agriculture, veterans affairs, military construction, and Congress, extends other agency funding through Jan. 30, 2026, and reinstates furloughed federal workers with back pay.https:/ ...

MSNBC's Aaya Gardner is at the White House for us. So, Aaya, what did leader F say and what does this mean. >> Well, Alex, it sounds like there's been major breakthrough in the last hour on Capitol Hill.Senator John Thun said today that there will be a vote to open the government. The exact contents of that vote, we still don't know yet, but Senator Mark Way Mullen predicted that we could see a vote within the next four to six hours. Take a listen to him earlier today talking about negotiations.>> There's a ...

Funding & Budget - A $20 million fund was set aside to aid food banks statewide [1] - SNAP, a 100% federally funded program, provides $90 million weekly to Illinois [1] - An extra $360 million monthly is needed, but currently unavailable [2] - The focus is on funding pantries to provide mostly dry goods [2] Food Security & Beneficiaries - 19 million people in Illinois, representing 146% of the state's 13 million population, receive SNAP benefits [3] - The state aims to prevent starvation among its residents [3] - Current funding is insufficient to meet the needs [1]

[Music] We are back with some breaking news. The Trump administration has now told a federal court how the US Department of Agriculture plans to partially pay for SNAP food benefits this month. The funding expired on Saturday.Uh MSNBC's Fallon Gallagher has been following this. On Friday, we talked a lot about what was going on in Massachusetts, but this eight-page response, as I understand it, from the USDA to the Rhode Island State Council of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches is about Rhode Islan ...

If we can pay the military, how could we figure something out for for the air traffic controllers. >> Yeah. So, there's strict rules around what we can pay and what we can't pay in in a government shutdown.So, um we've we've uh kept our academy uh operational in the sense that we're paying our students in the academy, a stipen that allows them to continue to um uh uh get trained and and and pay their daily needs. Uh we uh paid for a central air service, air service that goes to smaller communities. We're pu ...

In a social media post, President Trump suggested he'll provide funding for SNAP food benefits if he gets clarification from the judge who ordered his administration to use contingency funds to pay for the program. In the meantime, state officials are sounding the alarms as the lapse in assistance for millions of people begins today. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, whose state serves nearly 2 million SNAP beneficiaries, declared a disaster emergency and called on the president to follow the judge's ruli ...

President Trump has the power to keep 42 million Americans on food assistance, but so far he's refusing to release the money. On Saturday, those Americans will lose food aid known as SNAP benefits because of the shutdown. The administration is basically saying their hands are tied and there's nothing they can do about it. But that's not true. We know because Trump funded these benefits in a previous shutdown during his first term. In that shutdown, his administration took money from an expired government fu ...