Republicans, Ben Carson and Christian leaders will pray for unity, Trump and Israel as the government shutdown standoff drags on with no resolution in sight.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) tried to do damage control after Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the government “failed” Americans relying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

It’s been nearly three weeks since the United States government shut down, impacting everything from flights being on time, to national park operations, to federal workers getting a paycheck.

The Senate is set to vote again on Oct. 16 on a bill to end the shutdown after nine failed attempts. Most Democrats are still refusing to support any legislation that doesn’t restore cuts to Medicaid and extend subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.

"For us, this is not an abstract political matter. It has the potential to cause very real harm," dozens of Kentucky state representatives said in a letter to U.S. senators ahead of the shutdown. "A government shutdown would impact pay for our troops at ...

According to The New York Times, the president must read a code known as the "nuclear biscuit" from a laminated card they always keep with them. Idris Elba, who plays the president in A House of Dynamite, reads the series of codes in the final minutes of the movie, but his actual commands are never shown.

Now several weeks into the shutdown, Congresswoman Van Duyne and her team recently sent out a survey to gauge the shutdown’s impact. She tells us that around 2,600 people responded.