As the government shutdown nears becoming the longest in U.S. history, President Donald Trump has called on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster in order to bring the stalemate on Capitol Hill to an end. But, as before, they're not going along with his demands to change the traditional rule.

I don’t know how this ends, and what I want to say is you can’t have a forever shutdown for very practical reasons.

The Trump administration said that it would use reserve funds to cover “50% of eligible households’ current allotments” of SNAP benefits in November after Two federal judges ruled last week that the ...