UPDATE: President Trump and Democrats reached a deal to end the government shutdown on Friday. It was day 35 of the longest-ever closure of federal agencies. Original text:Day 35 of the longest-ever closure of federal agencies shows no end in sight as a second payday arrives with no pay for 800,000 federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay.Two Senate votes Thursday to reopen the government failed.The Republican measure fell, 51-47 — nine votes short of the necessary 60-vote threshold. The GOP plan would have opened the government through September and given President Donald Trump the $5.7 billion he says is necessary to build a wall.Shortly after the Republican plan fell, a Democratic plan fell eight votes short of the needed threshold. That plan would have opened the government through Feb. 8 but did not include money for a wall. The alternative proposed by Democrats would have put furloughed workers back on the job for at least two weeks.Mitt Romney, the freshman Republican senator from Utah, voted for each proposal, saying, "It is always wrong for either side to use shutting down the government as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations. It should be as off-limits as chemical weapons are to warfare."Romney was among seven senators to vote in favor of each proposal.‘Borrowing from a bank or a credit union’On Thursday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said he didn’t "really quite understand why" federal workers who are not being paid because of the shutdown don't just take out loans.Ross, a billionaire investor, said he was unsure why workers were going to food banks and homeless shelters."Well, I know they are and I don't really quite understand why, because as I mentioned before, the obligations that they would undertake, say borrowing from a bank or a credit union, are in effect federally guaranteed, so the 30 days of pay that some people will be out is no real reason why they shouldn't be able to get a loan against it,” he said in a CNBC interview.‘There are some days I won't even eat’Thousands of recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program were told that February’s benefits would come early.It’s unclear when recipients could receive their next monthly benefits. The Department of Human Services is awaiting information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on plans for March benefits should the shutdown continue.That news doesn’t sit well with Pittsburgh resident Angela Harris."There are some days I won't even eat," Harris told WTAE, the Hearst TV affiliate in Pittsburgh. "I'll give it to my kids. It's just not right. They gave me double food stamps this month, so next month we're really going to be hungry.”A nonprofit group has increased efforts to help the thousands of government workers and SNAP benefactors by holding pop-up food distribution sites."If it wasn't for them right now, I think my kids would be eating tonight and I wouldn't be," Harris said. "If it wasn't for them today having this food, I'd be hungry, and probably tomorrow I'd be in the hospital. They're good people. I definitely appreciate them."A Pittsburgh-owned ice cream shop will distribute care packages to SNAP benefactors this weekend, WTAE also reported."Food assistance payments (SNAP) have come early, but have to last until March. If this is keeping you and your family up at night wondering if you can put food on the table, we're here to help," a post on Klavon's Ice Cream Parlor's Facebook page reads. ‘We cannot even calculate’ level of riskThe number of call-outs for federal employees working in airports across the country continues to rise, according to unions representing those workers.In a statement, the unions said they have a “growing concern for the safety and security of our members, our airlines, and the traveling public due to the government shutdown.”"In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented,” the presidents of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the Air Line Pilots Association, International, and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said.More than 7.5 percent of Transportation Security Administration agents had "unscheduled absences" Wednesday, the union said.That’s more than double the number of workers who were out during the same time last year."Staffing in our air traffic control facilities is already at a 30-year low and controllers are only able to maintain the system’s efficiency and capacity by working overtime, including 10-hour days and 6-day workweeks at many of our nation’s busiest facilities," union leaders said.In a statement, the Federal Aviation Administration responded, saying the department, “continually reviews and analyzes the performance of the national airspace system to assess its safety and efficiency. We have not observed any appreciable difference in performance over the last several weeks compared to the same periods during the previous two years.”Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan made his way through every security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Thursday to say thank you to TSA officers, Homeland Security police officers and air traffic controllers, WBAL, the Hearst TV affiliate in Baltimore, reported."I know how important you guys are to the nation's security. We appreciate your hard work, and I know you're not getting a paycheck, but we're here to back you up. Thank you so much," Hogan said to Homeland Security police officers."It's absurd and ridiculous, and every single person in Washington is to blame," Hogan said. "It's, like, it's crazy. It's 'If I don't get my wall, I'm going to shut down the government.' And, 'If you don't open the government, you can't speak in our chamber.' It's a bunch of 2-year-olds, you know?"A little moreThere’s no shortage of stories about the shutdown around the country. Here’s some of what we’re reading:The hidden costs of the government shutdown (VOX)Fatal crashes go unchecked during shutdown (Politico)For people who need assistance, the lingering shutdown could mean a food crisis (NPR)U.S. government shutdown to crimp growth, recession risk steady: Poll (Reuters)Coast Guard deployed in Middle East, Pacific without pay during government shutdown (ABC)