On its 36th day, the federal government shutdown is the longest in U.S. history. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., acknowledged various forms of tangible pain are broadening.

“This is very painful,” Capito said during a briefing with West Virginia reporters.

“You see the Secretary of Transportation warning of traffic delays and pull back of air traffic controllers. We know in West Virginia, our food banks are extremely busy filling a gap that should never have existed, and that is the lack of SNAP funding for our families.”

The Republican majority in the U.S. Senate has called for stopgap funding for the federal government. Democrats have been holding out for a reversal of changes to Medicaid from the Big Beautiful Bill, an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies and greater con

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