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But he said the administration would not use contingency funds for SNAP, a program 42 million Americans rely on.
Even with Friday's court rulings ordering the funds to flow, it is unclear when that will happen.
Sam Greenglass, NPR News, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Sometimes, you know, persons get into quarrels and fights because they are frustrated because the gas supplies are limited and the long lines.
want to pass a stopgap funding bill, but Democrats say Republicans need to negotiate over health insurance subsidies that are expiring soon.
Top Republicans say there's nothing to negotiate, even as a handful of their members are having informal conversations with Democrats about potential paths forward.
But that hasn't resulted in much, and both parties are gearing up for an extended shutdown.
The White House says it's moved around funds to make sure troops get paid this week, and food assistance for women and children continues.
And President Trump says he plans to fire more federal workers en masse while the shutdown continues, saying Democrat programs will be specifically targeted.
Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
In the last week, the Senate has voted six times on the same pair of bills, one authored by Democrats, the other by Republicans.
Neither has gotten the 60 votes needed to pass.
And while a few senators are having informal talks about a path forward, there's no indication that the leadership on either side is willing to budge.
Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was among a bipartisan group of senators who shared a meal Tuesday night.
Republicans want to pass a short-term spending bill to reopen the government.
Democrats won't support that without a deal to extend expiring health insurance subsidies.
The votes are expected to continue.
The American Jewish Committee hosted the gathering, opening with Jewish prayers and the 23rd Psalm in Hebrew. Sam Dryman remembered Sarah Milgram's sense of mission. Who takes a job at the Israeli embassy, he said, when the country's in the middle of a conflict?