Government shutdown live updates as impasse hits Day 24 with no deal in sight

President Trump announced Thursday evening that he would be cutting off trade talks with Canada due to an ad campaign by the province of Ontario that featured a speech by President Ronald Reagan criticizing the use of tariffs.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement that Senate Democrats will force votes next week “to reverse Donald Trump’s damaging tariffs on Canada and other countries that have been one of the driving forces behind higher prices.”

“Americans … will see if Republicans put Donald Trump or average families first,” Schumer said.

The president has imposed steep tariffs on many goods imported from Canada, prompting Canada to impose its own retaliatory levies. The two sides had been engaged in talks aimed at resolving the dispute.

The Labor Department issued its monthly inflation report on Friday, showing the Consumer Price Index climbed at an annual rate of 3% in September, below economists’ forecasts.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt welcomed the news in a statement, but said that next month’s report will likely not be issued due to the shutdown. The report is based in part on surveys done by Labor Department staff.

“Democrats choosing to keep the government closed will likely result in no October inflation report, which will leave businesses, markets, families, and the Federal Reserve in disarray,” Leavitt said.

The White House statement explained that “[b]ecause surveyors cannot deploy to the field, the White House has learned there will likely NOT be an inflation release next month for the first time in history — depriving policymakers and markets of critical data and risking economic calamity.”

On Oct. 10, the Labor Department said all releases of economic data would be suspended during the shutdown but made an exception for the September CPI figures, since they are required to make cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. The Social Security Administration announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment for 2026.

Read more about the inflation report here.

Gus Papathanasiou, the head of the union representing U.S. Capitol Police officers, told CBS News in a statement that the lack of negotiations aimed at ending the shutdown is “extremely frustrating,” given that officers are working without pay.

“My officers are frustrated right now. This is the second pay period where they will not be paid, and they are really feeling the financial pressure,” Papathanasiou said. “I have officers who are taking out loans to pay their rent and feed their families. I have officers who are borrowing money from family members to make their car payment, pay for daycare, or pay their student loans.”

Capitol Police are responsible for protecting lawmakers and the Capitol complex. Papathanasiou is the chairman of the U.S. Capitol Police Labor Committee, the force’s union.

“It is extremely frustrating that neither side is talking to the other because we are eventually going to have to compromise and end this shutdown. The longer this continues the worse it gets for all federal employees and this nation,” he said.

States are warning struggling Americans who rely on food stamps to pay for groceries that they may miss out on benefits come November.

“Starting October 16, SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits will not be paid until the federal government shutdown ends and funds are released to PA,” reads a notice from the Pennsylvania state website.

New Jersey, Maryland, New York and Texas are among the other states that have issued similar notices.

The wave of announcements come after the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the federal food stamps program, issued a letter to state agencies on Oct. 10 saying that if the lapse in appropriations continues, there will be “insufficient funds” to pay full November SNAP benefits.

Reached for comment, the White House referred CBS News to the USDA, which then shared the letter it sent to states. Both declined to comment on what a lapse in funding could mean for the millions of Americans who rely on the program. 

Read more here.

Speaking to reporters after Thursday’s votes, GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said he will continue discussions aimed at passing his bill that would pay federal employees, service members and contractors who continue to work during a lapse in funding. He said Democrats should support advancing the bill to begin the amendment process and that their differences were “not insurmountable.”

“The way to do it is get on the bill and then start working out the differences and hopefully pass it next week. Now, I fear it won’t get cloture. That doesn’t mean the discussions won’t continue,” he said. “I talked to both Sen. Van Hollen and Sen. Peters. We’ll get our staffs working on this, and see if we can iron out differences, and maybe we can come to an agreement next week.”

Johnson noted the differences between his bill and the Democratic proposals, namely that his version would apply to all future shutdowns, not just the current impasse: “I want to make this permanent. I want to stop playing brinkmanship. I want to stop playing with people’s lives.”

He also said he is “willing to talk” about restricting the president’s ability to lay off employees during a shutdown, but doesn’t want to “completely hamstring” the White House.

On the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, Majority Leader John Thune commented on the failed vote to advance the bill to pay federal workers, and expressed exasperation at his Democratic colleagues.

“I don’t know how you would explain — if you have any federal employees — how you would vote against something that would make sure that, in the middle of a government shutdown, if they continue to work, that they get paid. That’s all it was. Very simple, very straightforward,” Thune said. “I think the other side is in a very bad headspace right now, to vote against something like that.” 

He continued: “If you have any federal employees in your state, obviously a lot of them here in this area, all of our staffs are currently not getting paid. Sen. Johnson tried to correct that today by calling up a bill which we just voted on and which once again Democrats here in this chamber voted against.”

Thune said he “can’t explain what’s going on on the other side of the aisle, but they consistently come down here and vote against paying people who are working, working every single day and not getting paid.”