Government shutdown live updates: Focus turns to Senate after House OKs spending bill

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Democrats the White House and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer support the new bill coming to the floor and that he does as well, according to members.

While the deal isn’t perfect, Democrats pointed out that it no longer includes the "poison pill" of the debt limit increase, said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill..

"It was a huge win for the American people to remove that," he said, suggesting that enough Democrats will back the deal to approve it tonight and possibly avoid a government shutdown.

-ABC News' Ben Siegel

Prior to the start of voting on the new funding bill, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed approval of the removal of the debt limit provision.

"What needed to come out of the bill has come out of the bill, and now we’ve got to evaluate the four corners of what remains in the legislation," he said.

Pressed by ABC News’ Jay O’Brien if that means Democrats should vote for it, Jeffries waffled.

"That’s what we’re going to discuss," the New York congressman said. "But the reckless effort to remove the ability for the American people to have a real discussion in terms of fiscal responsibility by trying to jam a debt ceiling suspension into the legislation at the eleventh hour was not sustainable."

-ABC News' John Parkinson

The House has begun voting on a funding bill that would prevent a government shutdown. The vote needs a two-thirds majority to pass.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, sent a letter to congressional leaders questioning whether Elon Musk helped tank the first bipartisan government funding bill due to language it included about restricting U.S. investments in China.

"It is particularly disturbing that Musk may have sought to upend this critical negotiated agreement to remove a bipartisan provision regulating U.S. investments in China in order to protect his wallet and the Chinese Communist Party at the expense of American workers, innovators, and businesses," DeLauro wrote in the letter Friday.

DeLauro also explained how an outbound investment provision would have kept new technologies in the United States and prevented wealthy investors from offshoring production and U.S. intellectual property to China.

Nearly a quarter of Tesla’s global revenue in 2023 drew from sales of Chinese-made vehicles from the Shanghai factory, she said.

"I urge congressional leadership to return to the deal and include this critical provision that ensures U.S. capabilities and capital do not fuel that of the Chinese Community Party," she said.