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Government shutdown live updates: House, Senate approve stop-gap funding bill

The deal does not include a provision to raise the debt limit.

ByLauren Peller, John Parkinson, Ivan Pereira, Stacey Dec, Jack Moore, and David Brennan

Last Updated: December 21, 2024, 2:09 AM EST

With a government shutdown narrowly avoided late Friday into Saturday morning, the House and Senate sent a funding bill to President Joe Biden's desk.

An initial bipartisan deal was tanked earlier this week by President-elect Donald Trump and his ally, Elon Musk. Then on Thursday night, the House failed to pass a revamped plan that included Trump's explosive demand that the debt limit be extended.

Under the proposal, the 118-page bill contains most of the provisions that were put in place in the bipartisan bill that was agreed to on Wednesday. The bill includes $100 billion for disaster aid, $30 billion for farmers and a one-year extension of the farm bill, provisions that were under heavy debate prior to this week's votes.

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Here's how the news is developing:

Dec 19, 2024, 6:33 PM EST

House voting now on new spending bill

The debate on the latest Republican spending bill has ended and voting has begun.

Dec 19, 2024, 6:28 PM EST

'Giveaway for billionaires': White House slams Republican funding plan

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed the new Republican funding plan in a statement Thursday evening.

"Republicans are doing the bidding of their billionaire benefactors at the expense of hardworking Americans," she said. "Republicans are breaking their word to support a bipartisan agreement that would lower prescription drug costs and make it harder to offshore jobs to China — and instead putting forward a bill that paves the way for tax breaks for billionaires while cutting critical programs working families count on, from Social Security to Head Start."

"President Biden supports the bipartisan agreement to keep the government open, help communities recovering from disasters, and lower costs — not this giveaway for billionaires that Republicans are proposing at the 11th hour," Jean-Pierre added.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle

Dec 19, 2024, 6:09 PM EST

Johnson pushes forward with new deal

House Speaker Mike Johnson released a statement on X promoting the new Republican deal.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson takes questions from reporters after presenting his final version of an interim pending bill to his caucus, at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP

"Tonight, we will be voting on the American Relief Act, which allows President Trump to hit the ground running next year and deliver quickly on the America First agenda the people overwhelmingly voted for," he said.

Dec 19, 2024, 5:34 PM EST