The new notice comes after the Trump administration said it would not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, (SNAP), used by one in every eight Americans.

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations on October 1 after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement to extend funding past the end of the federal fiscal year on September 30.

Pressure on Congress to resolve the impasse intensified Monday when the nation’s largest federal employee union urged lawmakers to immediately pass a funding bill.

The US government shutdown is now the second longest ever. Millions of Americans face disrupted travel and missed paychecks. Airports are seeing flight delays due to staff shortages. Federal workers,

The stopgap bill, which would extend government funding until Nov. 21, was defeated after a 49-45 vote. It required 60 votes to pass and has now extended the shutdown to two weeks. The Senate will reconvene and vote again on Oct. 15, marking the ninth voting session on the funding bill.

Some lawmakers worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive president.

The US Transportation Department is cutting 13 current or planned routes by Mexican carriers into the US, in response to the country’s alleged noncompliance with a 2015 air transport agreement, Secretary Sean Duffy announced late Tuesday.

At least $80 billion of new nuclear reactors will be constructed across the U.S. under a new partnership formed between the U.S. government, Westinghouse Electric, Cameco and Brookfield Asset Management.

A pseudonymous market analyst known as “CryptoOracle” has caught the crypto community’s attention after his eerily timed prediction about the U.S. government shutdown - made days before it actually began.