Government shutdown updates: Biden signs funding bill, averting shutdown
Biden signed the stopgap measure on Saturday.
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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Trump says if there is going to be a shutdown, it should 'begin now'
Trump said on Friday morning that if there is going to be a government shutdown, it should "begin now."
"If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under 'TRUMP,'" Trump wrote in a social media post.
"This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!" Trump added.
The message came after House Republicans on Thursday night failed to pass a Trump-backed spending proposal after 38 GOP members rejected the plan.
-ABC News' Soorin Kim, Lalee Ibssa and Kelsey Walsh
Johnson says he expects another vote Friday morning
Speaker Johnson told reporters that he expects the House will be voting again soon to try to avert a shutdown.
"Yeah we're expecting votes this morning, we've got a plan," he told reporters as he arrived on Capitol Hill.
When asked if there was a new agreement, he only replied: "We'll see."
-ABC News' Emily Chang
Trump says Congress should 'get rid of' or extend debt ceiling, or else not do a deal
President-elect Donald Trump, in an early morning post on his social media platform, said Congress should either "get rid of" or extend the debt ceiling, saying his position was that "without this, we should never make a deal."
The post, which came a little after 1 a.m., was published after the House failed to pass the government funding bill Trump supported.
Trump added that the pressure is on the incumbent president, although he didn't mention President Joe Biden by name. He floated the year 2029 as a possibility for a new debt ceiling deadline.
-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim
Will House vote on another spending bill Friday?
House Speaker Mike Johnson departed the Capitol Thursday night and said "we'll see" when asked if the House will vote on another spending bill on Friday.
Earlier Thursday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said leaders will "keep working" and didn't specify what the next step would be.
"What exactly is in or out hasn't been decided," Scalise said.
Scalise blamed Democrats for voting down the bill Thursday, saying, "They want to try to shut it down."
Congress faces a deadline of midnight Friday to sort out funding or a government shutdown kicks in.