Vote in the House of Representatives on plan to prevent a government shutdown is imminent

House Democrats will soon vote on a bill aimed at preventing a partial government shutdown after a similar measure backed by President-elect Trump failed on Thursday.

Congress is looking for a path forward as the federal funding deadline approaches and a partial shutdown is expected shortly after midnight Saturday if no action is taken.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., suggested there would be a full House vote Friday as he left a closed House GOP session where leaders presented their plan.

“I expect us to move forward,” Johnson said. “We will not experience a government shutdown, and we will fulfill our commitments to our farmers who need assistance, to disaster victims across the country and to ensuring military and essential services, and to all who rely on the federal government.” About A salary is paid on public holidays.

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Speaker Johnson indicated that a vote on averting a government shutdown will be held on Friday. (Getty Images/AP)

The national debt has now risen to over $36 trillion and the deficit is over $1.8 trillion.

Several lawmakers told Fox News Digital that the upcoming legislation would extend current federal funding through mid-March – a measure known as a “continuous resolution” (CR) – coupled with just over $100 billion in disaster relief for the Victims of storms Helene and Milton. and support for the agricultural industry.

Johnson’s goal is to bypass the House’s regular procedures to bring legislation directly to a vote in the full chamber, a maneuver known as “suspending the rules.”

However, in exchange for the expedited path, the hurdle for passage will be raised from a simple majority to two-thirds of the vote in the House of Representatives – meaning Democratic support is crucial.

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told reporters he believes Johnson has reached an agreement with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. Massie, a longtime Johnson critic, said he would not vote for the bill.

“Trump wanted to raise the debt limit, and now we’re putting forward the exact same bill without raising the debt limit,” Massie said.

Another Republican lawmaker argued that Johnson would not move forward without Trump’s blessing.

President-elect Trump called on Republicans to withdraw the original spending bill. (Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)

“We wouldn’t be doing it if it weren’t for them,” said Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., when asked if Trump and Elon Musk had agreed to the deal.

Trump and Musk led the conservative rebellion against the original plan to avert a partial shutdown, a bipartisan agreement that emerged from negotiations between the top Democrats and Republicans in both houses of Congress.

This 1,547-page bill would have extended current state funding levels through March 14. However, Republican Party hardliners were angered by what they saw as unrelated measures in the bill – such as a pay raise for members of Congress, health care provisions and proposed legislation aimed at revitalizing RFK Stadium in Washington, DC

Trump-backed spending bill goes down in flames as shutdown looms

It was scrapped because Trump and Musk threatened to force out of office any lawmaker who did not support combining a CR with debt ceiling measures.

The debt limit is currently suspended until January 2025 under a previous bipartisan agreement, but Trump had pushed for Republicans to act now to avoid a messy, drawn-out dispute early in his term.

The second edition of the financing agreement was significantly slimmer at 116 pages. It excluded the stadium bill and the congressional pay raise, but still included measures to finance the reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and to fund disaster relief. In addition, the debt limit has been suspended until January 2027.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., opposes Johnson’s new CR plan (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

However, a House vote on the second plan went down in flames after 38 Republicans who opposed raising or suspending the debt limit and all but two Democrats voted to reject the bill.

Johnson huddled with those holdouts Friday morning, along with Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Russell Vought, and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

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The latest plan, which is expected to be voted on, does not affect the debt limit, but Johnson promised in this closed session to raise the debt limit early next year as part of Republicans’ plans for sweeping policy and spending reform.

During their closed session on Friday, House Republican leaders unveiled their CR plan as well as a plan to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion, followed by $2.5 trillion in net spending cuts, several people said told Fox News Digital.

However, it is still not clear whether the bill will affect all 38 objectors. Many had supported a plan to separate the Czech Republic from disaster aid and agricultural aid in order to vote on “single-issue” legislation.

But with a partial government shutdown looming just hours away, it appeared House leaders were running out of time to get it done by the end of Friday.