The House of Representatives last night voted down a stopgap funding bill backed by President-elect Donald Trump, pushing negotiations into the final 24 hours before tonight’s midnight deadline. The vote came after Trump opposed a bipartisan continuing resolution featuring add-on bills.
Thirty-eight Republicans joined Democrats to vote 235 to 174 against the president-elect’s new plan. The proposed resolution tied three months of stopgap funding to a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling and included aid to farmers as well as $100B in disaster aid. The plan's announcement followed Trump’s calls earlier in the day for the permanent repeal of the debt ceiling, a century-old rule capping how much the Treasury can borrow. The US debt has risen to roughly $36T after the ceiling was suspended from June 2023; that suspension expires January 1, 2025.
A federal government shutdown would furlough millions of workers, though essential services like the military and air traffic control would stay open (see 101).
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