Senators are meeting on Thursday for a rare bipartisan lunch as the government shutdown stretches on. The gathering is being hosted by Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

The lunch has been scheduled for several weeks and was set on the calendar before the government shutdown began, but now comes amid a weekslong impasse on funding. Several lawmakers were seen arriving for the lunch, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

The Department of Agriculture will resume some farmer assistance operations this week amid the ongoing government shutdown, Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday on X, following criticism from farmers and Republicans and calls for more support.

Rollins said the Farm Service Agency will resume "core operations" and resume distribution of $3 billion in assistance currently in the agency's reserves, through the same pipeline used to give farmers more than $20 billion in support in the first Trump administration.

A larger package promised by Rollins and the Trump administration to help soybean farmers and others has been delayed by the shutdown. The administration has discussed funding it with tariff revenues, but has yet to release details.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

California is the latest state to warn over 5 million SNAP recipients that they may not receive benefits next month because of the ongoing shutdown, but it will be felt immediately for new enrollees.

"This impact is immediate and first affects persons newly enrolling in CalFresh during the second half of October and then all 5.5 million enrollees after October 23, unless President Trump and Congress reopen the federal government by this date or take action to fund benefits," the governor's office said in a statement.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, will also fast-track up to $80 million to food banks and deploy the California National Guard on a humanitarian mission to support them. "Trump's failure isn't abstract -- it's literally taking food out of people's mouths. This is serious, this is urgent --and requires immediate action," Newsom said.

California joins a growing number of states issuing similar notices, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota, New York and Texas.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

On Day 22 of the shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson again placed the onus on Democrats to reopen the government but acknowledged that the Republican Party's messaging is becoming "old" and a change in strategy may be necessary in the coming weeks.

With more than 42% of the House-passed continuing resolution now in the rear-view mirror and the shutdown now being the second-longest in U.S. history, Johnson acknowledged the time may eventually come to call lawmakers back to Washington. The House has now been out of session for four weeks.

"Obviously, the calendar is being eaten up by all this political nonsense by the Democrats," Johnson said. "They are eating up the clock. So, we're getting closer to November, it is going to be more and more difficult with each passing hour to get all the appropriations done on time. We acknowledge that, but we have to decide this on a day-by-day basis."

-ABC News' John Parkinson

Speaker Mike Johnson said that he spoke with President Donald Trump "at length" on Monday regarding the government shutdown ahead of the Senate's vote on Tuesday, saying the president "wants to solve the problem."

Johnson was asked about the president's comments on Monday, when he said that "we are speaking with Democrats" and that "some good things could happen with health care."

"The president is a dealmaker. He likes to figure these things out and work toward solutions," Johnson said during a press conference on Tuesday.

But Johnson said that discussions regarding health care will not happen until "the Democrats stop inflicting pain on the American people and turn the lights back on Congress and get everybody back to work."