The government shutdown entered its 17th day on Friday, Oct. 17, with seemingly no end in sight and historic milestones quickly approaching.

The ongoing shutdown is set to become the third-longest in history on Monday, Oct. 20, surpassing the 1978 shutdown under President Jimmy Carter. The gridlock in Congress has continued as federal workers worry about missing paychecks and some key services face an uncertain future.

If the shutdown continues, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which 42 million people across the country rely upon, will fail to pay full benefits in the month of November.

As the weekend begins, here is when the Senate could next vote to end the ongoing shutdown.

When is the next Senate government shutdown vote?

The Senate is scheduled to reconvene on Monday afternoon, Oct. 20 at 3 p.m. ET. Following that, the Senate is set to vote on a measure to end the shutdown around 5:30 p.m. ET.

If passed, the government shutdown would end once the funding bill is signed off by President Donald Trump. But if the vote fails, the shutdown will continue as it has for the past two and a half weeks.

What are the longest ever government shutdowns?

The ongoing shutdown has reached 17 days and is quickly approaching historic lengths.

If no budget is passed and signed by the end of Tuesday, Oct. 21, the shutdown would become the second-longest ever on Wednesday, Oct. 22, when it would reach its 22nd day.

It would surpass the shutdown triggered by a budgetary standoff between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton. It lasted 21 days from Dec. 16, 1995 to Jan. 6, 1996.

The longest government shutdown was between Dec. 22, 2018, and Jan. 25, 2019, when the government was closed for 35 days during Trump’s first term.

On that occasion, Trump demanded $5.7 billion to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border, but Democrats flatly refused to negotiate on border wall funding until the government reopened, USA TODAY previously reported.

The shutdown ended only after Trump backed a bipartisan bill that contained none of the border wall funding he had demanded.

USA TODAY’s Bart Jansen and Saman Shafiq contributed to this report.

Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.

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