Senate passes bill to avert a government shutdown

A policeman stands outside of the office of US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at the US Capitol, in Washington, DC on December 20.

The House is voting now on a stopgap funding bill in a bid to avert a federal government shutdown just hours before a midnight deadline. If the bill passes, it would next need to go to the Senate.

The bill would extend government funding into March. It includes disaster relief and farming provisions, but does not include a suspension of the debt limit, which President-elect Donald Trump has been demanding Republicans address.

How we got here: Republicans have struggled to find a way to prevent the government from shutting down after Trump upended the funding push by coming out against an initial bipartisan deal earlier this week.

The Republican-led chamber then tried and failed to pass a GOP funding plan backed by Trump that would have included a two-year suspension of the debt limit.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said now that the debt ceiling suspension is out of the government funding bill text, Democrats can “evaluate the four corners of what remains.”

House Republicans pointed fingers within their party as they emerged from a 2-hour meeting to discuss a last-ditch plan to fund the government ahead of the midnight shutdown deadline.

Here’s what some of them said:

People walk past the Christmas tree standing in the office doorway of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's office in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 20.

The House is expected to take one vote on a plan to avert a government shutdown sometime between 5 and 6 p.m. ET. Members were just alerted of vote timing.

It is unclear if the vote will pass.

House Democrats will meet to caucus before the vote, according to multiple Democratic sources.

Remember: Members of Congress have been scrambling since President-elect Donald Trump torpedoed an original bipartisan spending deal earlier this week. Then a Trump-backed GOP plan failed a vote yesterday.

Lawmakers have mere hours left before a midnight deadline to strike a deal and keep the government open.

The latest effort would see the GOP move a spending package, disaster aid, farm aid and the extension of the farm bill in one package under suspension of the rules, which would require a two-thirds majority vote to pass, according to three members familiar with the plan.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has told reporters there won’t be a government shutdown, but has not detailed the plan.

CNN’s Sarah Ferris contributed reporting to this post.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to his office at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 13.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called for his colleagues to recognize the need for bipartisan deal-making in his farewell speech as GOP leader, which ended with multiple standing ovations from colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

McConnell pointed to the chaos in the Capitol Friday, as Congress works to avert a shutdown, as evidence that it is important to try to find compromise.

“The people who are here to make a difference recognize pretty quickly you never get everything you want, but often you can get quite a lot. And the folks who prefer to make a point have a funny habit of reminding us, out loud, how poorly they understand that fact,” McConnell added.

“I don’t care to count how many times I’ve reminded our colleagues and our House counterparts how harmful it is to shut the government down, and how foolish it is to bet your own side won’t take the blame. When you try to use normal government function as a bargaining chip, you pay a political price.”

Once House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speak about the new GOP plan to avert a federal government shutdown, Jeffries is expected to hold a Democratic caucus-wide meeting before indicating how they will vote on the floor, per multiple members.

Timing for the caucus meeting is in flux.

A group of battleground Democrats told their party’s leadership they would vote together as a party and ensure their side was not cut out of the deal, according to multiple Democratic sources.

The group of lawmakers met with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katheleen Clark and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar this afternoon, the sources said.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio described a feeling of unity in the meeting despite the rapidly approaching shutdown.

Still, Kaptur did not rule out voting for the GOP’s emerging plan, including a slimmed-down version of the stopgap bill House Speaker Mike Johnson and Jeffries negotiated.

“I would consider it. But I would have to read very word because there are tricks being played,” Kaptur said.

House Republicans are preparing to move a spending package, disaster aid, farm aid and the extension of the farm bill in one package under suspension of the rules, which would require a two-thirds majority, according to three members.

“I think the reality is you’ve got to get this passed as quickly as possible,” New York GOP Rep. Mike Lawler said.

There is a major caveat though. House Speaker Mike Johnson still needs to talk to President-elect Donald Trump about it, members say.

It’s also not clear if Democrats will vote with Republicans on such a package, but Speaker Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have been communicating this morning.

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to the media following a meeting with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that there won’t be a government shutdown, but did not detail specifics of a plan.

Still, he asserted that Republicans are united.

Audiences at a conservative gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday continued to express displeasure with House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Attendees booed Johnson when prompted by an anti-vaccine activist, who was criticizing the bipartisan government funding bill the speaker helped negotiate before it collapsed this week at the direction of President-elect Donald Trump.

During Turning Point USA’s “AmericaFest” conference, Leigh-Allyn Baker, an actress and outspoken opponent of vaccines, falsely suggested the failed spending bill had included language mandating vaccines and other public health measures, and attacked Johnson for his role in negotiating the bill.

Why it matters: The collapse of the original bipartisan funding agreement on Wednesday thrust Johnson’s future as leader of the chamber into question, and sent the country hurtling toward a government shutdown if not averted before midnight.

During the first two days of AmericaFest, Johnson has been the subject of consistent ridicule by Trump allies. Former Trump aide Steve Bannon said Thursday that Johnson should be removed from the speakership.

Johnson was scheduled to appear at the conference but canceled his appearance to work on the negotiations for a new funding bill.

Rep. Dusty Johnson talks with reporters after attending a meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday, December 20, at the Capitol in Washington.

Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson, a close ally of GOP leaders, downplayed the likelihood of a prolonged government shutdown but also made clear there was no firm consensus on a path forward during a GOP conference meeting on Friday afternoon.

Johnson had just suggested that Congress could be heading toward a “technical shutdown,” that could last a “few hours,” but stressed leadership wanted to avoid a prolonged lapse.

Asked if it’s likely the House will not pass a bill by midnight, Johnson said Speaker Mike Johnson is “laying out some options,” then “you’ve got a lot of different people would need to sign off on a play call.

Johnson also said he would have a “better sense for whether or not a consensus is developing” after he returned to the room with his colleagues.

“I have been really impressed with how Mike Johnson has tried to take all of these disparate voices, people who agree on, frankly, not very much, and trying to channel them together for something productive,” he said.

House GOP leaders still have not yet settled on a way forward, according to multiple members in a closed-door meeting.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told CNN that there are “no decisions” on when to vote.

House Republican leadership is proposing a plan for raising the debt limit that is separate from the government funding bill, according to three sources in a closed-door GOP meeting Friday.

The proposal would be an agreement to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion next year in the “first reconciliation package” alongside $2.5 trillion cuts in “net mandatory spending in the reconciliation process,” according to three sources.

This plan of separating the debt limit increase from the government funding plan, as CNN has been reporting, is being discussed in a House GOP conference meeting that is still underway. The debt limit proposal would satisfy most of the Republicans who are against raising the debt ceiling without extensive cuts accompanying it.

House GOP leadership is shopping this idea to the conference to see if they have enough consensus to go to the floor and avoid another failure like Thursday night, when 38 Republicans voted against a plan that linked government funding and the debt limit together — a plan that President-elect Donald Trump had supported.

Remember: It was Trump who injected the controversial debt limit issue into the current spending negotiations in the first place. He has said he wants the ceiling addressed — and a government shutdown, if necessary — while President Joe Biden is still in office, not during his own presidency.

Trump tanked an emerging bipartisan deal that would have averted a shutdown but did not address the debt limit earlier this week.

With just hours left to avoid a government shutdown, one business owner in North Carolina said the disaster aid included in the potential funding plan is a critical need for her community.

North Carolina, and several other southeast states, were hit hard by Hurricane Helene earlier this year.

Katie Button owns two restaurants in Asheville, one of which is still closed after Helene devastated the area. She said the looming shutdown with aid hanging in the balance is “incredibly frustrating and disheartening.”

She said western North Carolina needs President-elect Donald Trump and elected officials to “come together, put their party designation aside, and get this money passed.”

Button said the money is needed not only to re-build and clean up, but also to support the small businesses so they don’t have to permanently close their doors.

“There are real people, workers in our area, businesses, that are at risk if this does not get passed,” Button said.

Watch Button’s interview below:

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‘We are hanging on by a thread’: Business owner responds to shutdown threat

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The federal government could shut down in a matter of hours if Congress does not cobble together a temporary funding plan on Friday.

Here’s what Americans could soon face if Congress doesn’t reach a deal by midnight on Friday:

Agencies could shut down: Since Congress has not approved appropriations for any agencies, all would be affected. Every department and agency has its own set of plans and procedures for a shutdown, which last occurred during Trump’s first term and stretched from just before Christmas in 2018 to the end of January in 2019. The plans include how many employees would be furloughed, which employees are considered essential and would work without pay, how long it would take to wind down operations in the hours before a shutdown and which activities would come to a halt. Those plans can vary from shutdown to shutdown.

Potential impact on holiday travel: A shutdown could have an outsized impact on air travel since it would coincide with the busy holiday season. Roughly 59,000 of the agency’s more than 62,000 employees are considered essential and would continue working without pay during a shutdown, TSA Administrator David Pekoske posted on X on Thursday. However, during the 2019 shutdown, hundreds of TSA officers called out from work – many of them to find other ways to make money. So did many air traffic controllers, snarling flights.

National Parks: Should a funding lapse occur, routine visitor services would be available through Sunday, the National Parks Service said. The agency is still reviewing its contingency plan to determine operations for individual parks. However, some states could use their own funds to keep the national parks within their borders open. When a shutdown loomed in the fall of 2023, Utah said it would keep the Mighty 5 parks – Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Zion – open, while Arizona planned to keep the Grand Canyon operational. Colorado also said it would also keep its four national parks and other federal lands open.

Defense Department: More than 2 million US military personnel, including active duty and reserves, would continue their duties during a shutdown, according to the latest planning document from the Pentagon, but they could potentially work without pay until a deal is reached. It would depend, in part, on whether Congress would pass legislation similar to the one it approved prior to the 2013 shutdown that guaranteed that the military would be paid during the impasse. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense’s robust civilian workforce supporting service members’ efforts could be affected. About 45% of the civilian workforce – more than 800,000 employees – would be furloughed.

Read more about everything that could be impacted during a government shutdown.

CNN’s Haley Britzky and Jennifer Hansler contributed to this report.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries arrives at a news conference at the US Capitol on Thursday.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has not yet informed his members whether he plans to back Speaker Mike Johnson’s emerging funding plan, which would include a different three-month spending plan than the one the two men personally negotiated, according to multiple sources.

Jeffries is expected to make his position clear only after the GOP plan survives the party’s conference meeting, which is happening now. Democrats may meet again later Friday before deciding a path forward.

Democratic lawmakers told CNN they are waiting on Jeffries before making any decisions themselves. Several said they could be convinced to vote either way, depending on their leader, but believe the party will stick together like it did on Thursday to help increase their leverage in any future talks.

Jeffries opened the door to working with Johnson earlier Friday.

US government agencies began communicating with employees who would be furloughed in the event of a shutdown, the White House said.

The White House Office of Management and Budget began communicating to federal agencies one week prior to the potential shutdown, issuing standard but mandatory guidance about planning for a lapse in funding. OMB has been in regular touch with counterparts across the federal government since then.

Each department and agency has its own set of plans and procedures in the event of a shutdown.

President Joe Biden spoke with Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill on Friday, the White House said, the first time the administration has confirmed that Biden is involved with Congressional negotiations to avoid a government shutdown.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “just moments” before an afternoon press briefing, Biden spoke with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Asked why the president hadn’t spoken to the American people or been more involved in negotiations, Jean-Pierre said Biden has “had this approach before.”

“He understands how Congress works,” she said. “He’s been around for some time. He understands what strategy works here to get this done. So, this is not, this is not the first time.”

She also continued to place the blame squarely on Republicans for the potential shutdown.

House Speaker Mike Johnson walks to a meeting with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill on Friday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters they’d find out soon what the GOP’s plan is to try and avert a shutdown as they entered a meeting to present their idea to their Republican colleagues.

Scalise said they “had some really good, productive meetings this morning, and we’re going to be laying out a few options to the members right now, and we’re going to be ready to then move to floor action, but have to first talk to our full membership.”

Asked if they would require the procedural step of a rule vote, which would slow down the process of passing any bills, Scalise said they had not decided yet.

“We’ll be talking about that as well. That hasn’t been resolved, but we’re going to be talking with our members about that,” he said.

The short-term spending bill currently being discussed by House Republicans also includes an extension of the farm bill, according to multiple sources.

The 3-month continuing resolution could see a floor vote later today. The farm bill would be extended for one year if it is passed.

A commercial jet takes off at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, in 2023.

Thousands of air traffic controllers, still required to report to work without pay if a government shutdown begins at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, will receive their last normal paycheck on Christmas Eve according to their union.

Controllers “are expected to continue to report for duty,” NATCA said. “All paid leave will likely be cancelled” and “employees on an authorized absence from duty during the shutdown will be placed in a furlough status for the duration of their absence.”

The Department of Transportation’s latest operations plan listed nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers as expected to report to work during a government shutdown. The plan also details that air traffic controller hiring and training will cease, potentially deepening a shortage of air traffic controllers.

Other potential impacts: That shortage could cause the impact of a government shutdown to be felt more acutely in the nation’s control towers and radar facilities that guide tens of thousands of flights each day. Over the Thanksgiving travel period, United Airlines said FAA staffing shortages impacted its customers flying in and out of Newark airport.

Air traffic controllers covering Newark’s air space have been in particularly short supply over the last few years, causing the Federal Aviation Administration to shift coverage to its Philadelphia facility earlier this year. So far, as the Christmas travel season kicks off Friday, FAA has not listed any staffing impacts on its daily advisory, but there are concerns a government shutdown will put added strain on the system.

A man walks toward the Capitol on a day where a potential government shutdown looms during the holidays after a spending bill backed by Donald Trump failed in the US House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 20.

House Republican leaders are again revising their plans and now expect to hold votes on a new funding plan, according to GOP sources.

Three bills: The Republican leadership now wants to hold separate votes on a three-month government funding bill, a $100 billion disaster package and a $10 billion farm aid bill.

No debt limit: The GOP is unlikely to hold a separate vote on the debt limit, the politically fraught issue that President-elect Donald Trump injected into the negotiations when he tanked an original bipartisan deal earlier this week. Trump has said he wants the debt limit addressed while President Joe Biden is still in office, but a separate vote on the issue is not currently part of the latest plan, the Republican sources said.

A vote tonight or tomorrow: It’s unclear when the House will vote or how many Democratic votes they will need to assist with passage.

GOP leaders are debating voting tonight under a process that would require two-thirds of the chamber to agree, or waiting to vote until tomorrow by first passing a rule that would require only a simple majority to pass the funding plan, according to a source.

The situation is highly fluid, and House Speaker Mike Johnson has not formally communicated any plan to his members.

The full GOP conference is expected to meet soon.

House Republicans are expected to meet behind closed doors early Friday afternoon as leadership tries to sell their latest deal, according to multiple lawmakers and aides.

Lawmakers are scrambling to come up with a compromise before the end of the day that avoids a government shut down.

House GOP leaders are eyeing a funding strategy that would allow lawmakers to take a series of separate votes on funding the government and raising the debt limit, in a last-minute bid to avert a shutdown.

Lawmakers would take four separate votes: A three-month spending stopgap, a $100 billion disaster package, a $10 billion farm aid package, and a debt limit hike, according to two GOP sources briefed on the plans.

The House GOP plans to hold a conference meeting later today to brief members.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team have not made a final decision, but they hope to move rapidly, as lawmakers are eager to leave town for the holidays.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer continues to push for the House to vote on the original bipartisan stop-gap funding deal, despite insistence from House Republicans that the bill is dead.

Rep. Ralph Norman is asked by reporters about the proposed budget continuing resolution that would avoid a looming government shutdown at the US Capitol on December 18, in Washington, DC.

House Republicans are planning to head to the Rules Committee to launch the process of bringing something to the floor, GOP Rep. Ralph Norman said Friday morning as he left House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office, but it’s unclear what the party would be voting on.

This approach indicates that Republicans are going to try to peel off just enough Democrats to support their new plan to avert a federal government shutdown. By going through the Rules Committee, Republicans would just need to earn a simple majority in favor of their plan, rather than a two-thirds majority under suspension.

The details of the new proposal still have not been released and everything remains extremely fluid. If the Rules Committee meets, they have to give an hour notice. And as of this writing, a notice has not been given.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries arrives at a news conference in the House Visitors Center at the US Capitol on December 19 in Washington, DC.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused Republicans of pushing the country toward a government shutdown on Friday.

Asked if the debit limit issue was a red line for him, he told CNN’s Manu Raju:

As he went in to address his caucus, Jeffries didn’t answer if he would be open to a short-term funding bill without raising the debt limit as some Republicans have floated.

Inside, Jeffries told Democrats that he has reopened a line of communication with Republicans.

“Because of our display of unity, the lines of communication have been reopened,” Jeffries told Democrats in their meeting, according to a source who was in the room.

This post was updated with Jeffries’ remarks during his meeting with the Democratic caucus.

Rep. Lauren Boebert in the Rayburn House Office Building in July.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert said she thought Donald Trump was “possibly sold a bad bill” Thursday night and that she did not want the president-elect’s first demand of House Republicans to be a failure, as 38 Republicans bucked leadership and his wishes by voting down the plan that he supported.

The timing of any vote today remains fluid. Earlier on Friday, Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told reporters that the House would vote at 10 a.m. ET but members and aides say there is no vote scheduled at this time as negotiations are still ongoing.

This post was updated with the latest on the timing for a possible vote.

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters outside of the House Chambers in the US Capitol on December 19, in Washington, DC.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday said he has a plan to call members of Congress back to vote on a bill that will keep the government funded as the deadline to do so edges close.

This comes as House Democrats have denounced billionaire Elon Musk’s outsized influence over the government and as Republicans say President-elect Donald Trump should hop on a plane to Washington to try to negotiate a deal in person.

Government funding expires at midnight tonight.

Here’s what you need to know:

House Freedom Caucus member says votes are happening at 10 a.m. ET, but has no details of a plan:

Democrats slam Musk’s role as “shadow president:”

Republicans call on Trump to get personally involved in negotiations:

Discussions are underway among House Republicans to drop a suspension of the national debt limit — despite Donald Trump’s demands — in order to avoid a damaging government shutdown at month’s end, according to GOP sources.

It’s unclear what the final decision will be or if the latest plan can pass Congress, given it will need significant Democratic support.

Democratic sources say they may be pressured to support to a clean extension of government funding, which more closely mirrors the original deal before Trump got involved, but stress they need to see the final version and are frustrated that they’ve been left out of the process.

GOP Rep. Bob Good of Virginia left the meeting in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office with Vice President-elect JD Vance and others telling reporters there are still lots of options being discussed but believes that debt ceiling will be off the table.

The meeting in Johnson’s office is still ongoing but votes are expected later today.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told reporters that the House will vote at 10 a.m. ET but would not disclose any details about the plan.

Luna’s remarks came as she briefly emerged from a meeting with key House Republicans and Vice President-elect JD Vance. Luna is a Freedom Caucus member who has been part of the talks to avert a shutdown tonight at midnight.

President-elect Donald Trump confounded members of Congress and flipped the government spending debate on its head when he demanded a premature increase to the debt ceiling on “Biden’s watch” rather than his own.

He doubled down on his call in a Truth Social post overnight Friday, calling for the “ridiculous” ceiling to be extended into 2029.

Trump, in an interview with NBC News, has also endorsed abolishing the limit on federal debt — currently more than $36 trillion — altogether.

These are positions long championed by liberals and anathema to old-school conservatives, though few are to be found in today’s Trump-controlled Republican Party. And there are compelling political reasons why Democrats might not want to go along with Trump’s plan to ditch the ceiling: it provides them leverage in future negotiations with Republicans.

America is hours away from a holiday season government shutdown courtesy of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Everyone knew the president-elect and his new super-disrupter buddy were going to cause havoc in Washington. But no one thought they’d manage it even before the 47th president is sworn in.

Barring a pre-Christmas legislative miracle, the US government will plunge into a partial shutdown at midnight Friday after Musk tanked a year-end spending deal and the Trump doubled down with a demand for new debt spending authority that he never had a chance of getting through Congress.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s desperate Plan B on Thursday only succeeded in coming up with a bill that sparked a revolt on the House floor against Trump by 38 Republicans and almost all Democrats.

Two days of chaos on Capitol Hill upended what had appeared to be a calm end to a bitterly ill-tempered 118th United States Congress.

It was a Wednesday social media storm by Musk, who will co-chair an ad-hoc Department of Government Efficiency next year, and the return of Trump’s congressional wrecking ball that turned everything on its head.

Johnson had worked for weeks to try to keep the government open. That is now a strategy that threatens his already wobbling speakership since plenty of MAGA Republicans would be happy to see it close, even though that could inconvenience and economically harm many of their working-class voters.

By Thursday evening, his authority was in tatters as furious Republicans turned on one another on the House floor. Democrats suddenly emerged from their post-election funk to warn that the real new power in the land was not Trump but the world’s richest man: “President Musk.”

Read Collinson’s full analysis here.

Donald Trump on Friday morning said if there has to be a government shutdown, he wants it to occur while Joe Biden — not he — is president.

“If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP,’” the president-elect posted to Truth Social.

“This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!” he said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he has a plan and is expecting to vote again this morning.

When pressed if there is a new agreement though, Johnson added, “We’ll see.”

Johnson is currently meeting with Vice President-elect JD Vance, Russell Vought and GOP lawmakers in his office.

Vice President-elect Sen. JD Vance arrives at the US Capitol on December 19, in Washington, DC.

Vice President-elect JD Vance, Russell Vought, Donald Trump’s pick to lead Office of Management and Budget and members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus are meeting in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office, two sources tell CNN.

The meeting comes as Republicans try to figure out their next move after 38 GOP lawmakers voted against their leadership’s plan to fund the government.

President-elect Donald Trump called for the debt ceiling to be extended to 2029 on a late night posting on Truth Social.

Without the debt ceiling extension, Trump argued, “we should never make a deal.”

Trump helped tank a short-term bill this week that would have funded the government through March in part over his concern that the debt ceiling could interfere with his legislative agenda in 2025.

The debt ceiling, which was suspended by the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act in June 2023, will return on January 2. At that point, the Treasury Department will have to use the cash it has on hand to pay the nation’s bill.

Trump on Thursday backed a newly negotiated bill that would extend the debt ceiling until 2027. That bill failed to pass the GOP-controlled House.

Trump is now calling for the debt ceiling to be extended until his second, and last term, in the White House is over.

The US Capitol is pictured in Washington, DC, on December 19.

Congress is barreling toward a government shutdown after the GOP-led House failed to pass a funding plan backed by President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday, leaving Hill Republicans scrambling to find a path forward.

The Trump-endorsed plan was opposed by almost all Democrats, who are frustrated and angry after the president-elect tanked an earlier bipartisan deal, and a significant number of Republicans.

Government funding expires at the end of the day on Friday.

Here’s what else you should know:

What was in the bill:

Ahead of the vote:

Reaction to the failed vote:

President-elect Donald Trump has invited Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to the inauguration during what was described as a friendly dinner, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

Trump dined with Bezos and Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago Wednesday night, CNN previously reported.

The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the invitation.

CNN has reached out to Bezos for comment.

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with reporters as he emerges from the House chamber after his Trump-backed stopgap government spending bill failed to pass a House vote on Thursday, December 19.

After the failed House vote tonight, Speaker Mike Johnson blamed Democrats and said GOP leaders will find another solution.

There were no more votes in the House Thursday night as Republican leaders meet behind closed doors to chart a path forward.

Vice President-elect JD Vance makes his way to a Republican senate luncheon in the US Capitol on December 19.

Vice President-elect JD Vance blamed Democrats after the House failed to avert a government shutdown, arguing they are trying to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from “negotiating leverage” in the first year of his new term.

Vance did not respond when it was mentioned 38 Republicans also voted against the bill, nor did he answer a question on whether he is meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson tonight to regroup.

Vance was joined on Capitol Hill by his wife Usha, their three children and his German Shepherd, Atlas.

GOP Whip Steve Scalise said that House Republicans are unlikely to bring this latest proposal through the House Rules Committee to try to pass it with a simple majority.

The reason? It still wouldn’t pass.

Pressed on if Republicans would try to bring it through rules, he said: “Not on this bill. Not right now.”

Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer told reporters he wants President-elect Donald Trump to come to Washington, DC, and help with negotiations in-person as the Friday midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown looms.

Cramer said he still hopes they can avert a shutdown, though he doesn’t see a path forward at this point, after House Republican leadership’s latest package failed on the floor earlier Thursday evening.