By Mark Swanson | Thursday, 19 December 2024 03:58 PM EST
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House Republicans announced Thursday they have reached agreement on a Plan B to avert a government shutdown by Friday midnight, The Hill reported.
“We have reached an agreement and details will be forthcoming,” House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla., said after leaving House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office.
The House could vote later Thursday.
Earlier reports said Republicans were focused on a clean stopgap funding bill that stripped many of the new policy provisions in the bill that President-elect Donald Trump torpedoed on Wednesday, including a pay raise for lawmakers.
The earlier reports said that Trump’s desire for the debt ceiling to be raised would be put off in the continuing resolution with an eye toward raising the borrowing limit twice in 2025, The Hill reported.
It’s unclear if that’s where they landed.
Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., told reporters, “The plan is to put a bill on the floor that we think is a reasonable step forward,” as she also left Johnson’s office, according to The Hill.
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