The Senate is now adjourned until Monday afternoon, which will mark the 34th day of the government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader John Thune appeared exasperated in his calls for the Democrats to turn the lights back on in Washington, D.C.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue paying for food stamps during the federal shutdown.

Many Republicans are wary of scrapping the filibuster even though it would give them more power in the short term because they control both houses of Congress and the White House.