House GOP readies vote on new plan to avert government shutdown [View all]
Source: Washington Post
By Jacob Bogage and Marianna Sotomayor
House Republicans reached a last-minute deal that could fend off a weekend government shutdown, just 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk blew up a bipartisan compromise proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson.
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It also includes a last-minute demand by Trump to address the debt ceiling, a limit on how much the U.S. government can borrow, by suspending the limit until early 2027, extending a current suspension that was set to expire on Jan. 1, 2025.
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Though Johnson (R-Louisiana) and his allies won Trump over, the proposal is still on shaky ground with fiscally conservative lawmakers, threatening its chances of passing with only Republican votes.
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But House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) rejected the Republican-only deal ahead of a House Democratic caucus meeting, saying, “The Trump-Musk-Johnson proposal is laughable.”
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