The U.S. federal government shutdown has entered its 29th day. The Senate yesterday failed for the 13th time to pass a Republican-backed spending bill that would end the shutdown.

Meanwhile, 25 states and Washington, D.C., are suing the Trump administration over the suspension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP. The states are asking a federal judge in Massachusetts to order the Department of Agriculture to provide SNAP food aid benefits for November. In their lawsuit, the state officials write, “Shutting off SNAP benefits will cause deterioration of public health and well-being. Ultimately, the States will bear costs associated with many of these harms.” The Trump administration has vowed not to tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to keep SNAP benefits. It comes as a federal judge in San Francisco indefinitely halted the Trump administration from firing thousands of government employees during the shutdown. Here’s Mark Rausch, a vice president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

Mark Rausch: “It’s affecting us because we have to figure out what we’re going to do with what little money we may have left in savings, or how we’re going to figure out: Are we going to get more money coming in? Are we going to start driving Uber? Are we going to start doing maybe DoorDash? Figure some other kind of way to generate income, while still going to our jobs in air traffic control facilities and doing the work in aviation safety professions across the country without getting paid.”