House Republicans reach new plan to avoid government shutdown after back-to-back defeats: Sources
House Republican negotiators have tentatively reached an agreement on averting a government shutdown at the end of Friday, sources told Fox News Digital.
Two people familiar with discussions told Fox News Digital that the deal would include a short-term extension of this year's federal funding levels, disaster aid funding, and agricultural support for farmers – but under three separate bills.
It would also involve an agreement to act on the debt limit next year as part of Republicans' planned massive conservative policy overhaul via a process called reconciliation.
President-elect Trump called on Republicans to act on the debt limit as part of their talks to avert a government shutdown, a demand that dozens of conservative GOP lawmakers bristled at given their concerns about the national debt – which has exceeded $36 trillion.
Trump, along with Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, spearheaded opposition to Congressional leaders' original bipartisan agreement and even threatened to force lawmakers who supported it out of office.