Senate Majority Leader John Thune seemed ambivalent on Tuesday about bringing up individual bills to pay certain groups of federal workers or fund programs like SNAP during the shutdown. “This piecemeal approach, where you do one-off here, one-off there to make it seem more politically palatable to somebody or less painful, that’s just the wrong way to do this,” Thune said. He said the simple way to resolve the issue is to approve the House-passed measure to fund the government until Nov. 21. |

Unemployed cancer survivor Erin Annis tells CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns she is concerned about the anticipated cuts to food assistance programs on Nov. 1, saying she would need to turn to her adult children for help if the federal food aid does not go out. "That's an awful feeling," Annis said. "Your children shouldn't be helping you. You should be helping them." https://cbsn.ws/4nv0hJ4 | CBS News