The government shutdown stretched into Day 28 Tuesday as the stalemate over how to reopen the government continues.

World Central Kitchen, the humanitarian group founded by Chef José Andrés, distributed food to federal workers affected by the ongoing government shutdown.

Active service members may start going without pay if a deal to end the government shutdown isn’t reached soon.

The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for a stopgap funding measure to bring employees back to work with back pay.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has kept the House out of session since Sept. 19, and the unfinished work is piling up as the shutdown drags into its sixth week.

Democrats appear to be unmoved by fresh demands from the largest federal employees’ union to reopen the government, a sign that the shutdown stalemate between lawmakers will continue as government workers increasingly feel the pain during the process.

Operations at Newark Liberty on Monday were impacted by massive delays from Sunday that spilled over. Later, a ground stop was issued.

By Saturday morning, the federal budget impasse won’t just be about politics. It will begin to land in grocery store checkout lines, in pay stubs for federal workers, and in inboxes from health insurance companies.

The short answer is no, according to the California secretary of state’s office. “The only possible impact would be if United States Postal Service operations were interrupted and the USPS has noted that their operations won’t be interrupted,” a spokesperson for the secretary of state said in an email.

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