Musk mounted a pressure campaign on House Republicans on Wednesday to vote against the bipartisan bill that Johnson intended to bring to the floor. On Thursday, 38 Republicans – most of them fiscal conservatives – voted against a stripped-down version that cut out add-ons to the spending plan but extended a suspension of the country’s debt limit.

President-elect Donald Trump added a wrinkle to negotiations over a deal to fund the government when he called for an increase to the debt ceiling.

Congress had just over 24 hours to come up with a plan to fund the federal government or face a potential shutdown. Capitol Hill lawmakers have until midnight on Dec. 20 to pass a bill that would continue to fund the government through March after a 1,

Congress is scrambling to pass a bill to temporarily fund the federal government to avoid a shutdown less than a week before Christmas. House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a continuing resolution to fund the government through March,