Trump news at a glance: Republicans insist Trump is ‘desperate’ to resolve shutdown as Snap payments end

Nearly 42 million Americans face a potential lapse in supplemental nutrition assistance program (Snap) benefits, known as food stamps, due to the second-longest US government shutdown. Photograph: Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Reuters

Republicans are insisting that Donald Trump is “desperate” to end the government shutdown, which has now entered its 33rd day.

The comments by the Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, come as the US president delays food assistance funding for millions of low-income Americans but steams ahead with construction of his $300m gilded White House ballroom.