Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday froze, for now, a lower court order that required the Trump administration to swiftly provide full federal food benefits to roughly 42 million Americans.

The order from Jackson is temporary. She said it will give a federal appeals court more time to consider whether to provide the Trump administration with longer emergency relief while an appeal in the dispute over payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program moves forward.

The Supreme Court’s late-stage intervention came as the Trump administration closed in on an end-of-day deadline, set by a district court judge Thursday, to cover in full food assistance for November and use roughly $4 billion for other nutrition programs to do so. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit had temporarily left in place the lower court’s decision, after which the Justice Department sought emergency relief from the Supreme Court.

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Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana rescinded his most recent prediction that the shutdown could last at least another week or two.

“Whatever I said last night, forget it,” he told reporters. “We’re going to be here for a long time.”

Kennedy predicted that flight cancellations will “ratchet up the pressure” on both sides to find a way out of the shutdown.

“But other than that, both sides seem dug in,” he said. “So I think we’re going to be shut down for a while.”

Kennedy said he did not expect any deal to come together Saturday, when the Senate will be in session for the first time over a weekend since the shutdown began more than a month ago.

“I’m not kidding, you guys,” he said. “This shutdown is going to last a long time.”

GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine told reporters, “I truly don’t know,” when asked about the path forward on Saturday.

“All I know is I canceled my plans to go to Maine, where I was supposed to attend a funeral tomorrow,” she said, adding “we’re continuing to work on the three appropriations bills.”

Collins said she met for a “substantial amount of time” with GOP Rep. Tom Cole, Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray — the other top lawmakers on the Senate and House appropriations committees.

A federal judge told the Department of Education to remove “partisan” language blaming “Democrat Senators” for the government shutdown from furloughed federal workers’ out-of-office email messages.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper sided with a federal employees’ union that alleged its members’ auto-reply emails were changed without their permission to insert the partisan message.

Cooper said the move violated the First Amendment because the government had essentially forced staffers to make a political statement against their will, a concept known as “compelled speech.”

“Nonpartisanship is the bedrock of the federal civil service; it ensures that career government employees serve the public, not the politicians. But by commandeering its employees’ e-mail accounts to broadcast partisan messages, the Department chisels away at that foundation,” the judge wrote. “Political officials are free to blame whomever they wish for the shutdown, but they cannot use rank-and-file civil servants as their unwilling spokespeople. The First Amendment stands in their way.”

CBS News reached out to the Department of Education for comment.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the Senate will return Saturday at noon.

“We’ll see if something comes together that we can vote on,” Thune told reporters. “Remains to be seen.”

The Senate failed to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to advance GOP Sen. Ron Johnson’s Shutdown Fairness Act.

The vote ended with 53 voting in favor and 43 voting against it. Three Democrats voted for the bill: Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia, and Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico.

A procedural vote on the bill on Oct. 23 also failed, with three Democrats joining Republicans to support it.

The Senate is voting on whether to advance the Shutdown Fairness Act, the bill put forth by GOP Sen. Ron Johnson. The current version of the legislation would pay federal employees who have continued to work during the shutdown, but Johnson has an amendment that would also pay furloughed workers. The motion to proceed will need 60 votes to succeed.

Johnson noted that major unions representing federal employees support the legislation.

“What they particularly like about my bill is the fact that it’s permanent. It prevents federal workers — and quite honestly, the broader American public — from being used as pawns again in these sick political games being played right now with their lives,” he said on the floor before the vote.

“I am actually pleading for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to please vote to proceed to this bill,” he said.

President Trump called on the Senate to stay in town until the shutdown is resolved, or eliminate the filibuster if senators are unable to reach a deal.

“The United States Senate should not leave town until they have a Deal to end the Democrat Shutdown,” he posted on Truth Social. “If they can’t reach a Deal, the Republicans should terminate the Filibuster, IMMEDIATELY, and take care of our Great American Workers!”

Thune told CBS News that the Democratic proposal is a “nonstarter” as GOP lawmakers entered a conference meeting near the Senate chamber.

“I think everybody who follows this knows that’s a nonstarter. There is no way. The Obamacare extension is the negotiation. That’s what we’re going to negotiate once the government opens up,” he said. “But, you know, a one-year extension along the lines of what they’re suggesting, I think everybody knows they’re — and without Hyde protections — it doesn’t even get close.”

Thune was referring to the Hyde amendment, which restricts federal funding for abortions.

Thune added: “We need to vote to open the government. And there is a proposal out there to do that, and then we can have this whole conversation about health care.”

“I think it’s an indication that they’re feeling the heat, and they know that their last proposal was unserious and unrealistic,” he said. “So I guess you could characterize that as progress, but I just don’t think that it gets anywhere close to what we need to do here. And they know it. And I think anybody who’s been following this debate knows it too.”