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According to GOP lawmakers, a new spending deal has been reached.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are expected to support the deal.
Republicans have struck a deal on a short-term government spending patch and potential debt limit increase, according to two GOP lawmakers meeting in Speaker Mike Johnson’s office Thursday afternoon.
“There is an agreement,” said Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.). Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) confirmed there was a deal among Republicans, though the news caught House Democrats by surprise.
The plan Johnson is expected to put on the House floor later Thursday includes, according to three Republicans familiar with the deal, a stopgap measure that funds the government through mid-March, a clean farm bill extension, the $110 billion disaster aid package previously negotiated with Democrats, clean health care provision extenders and a two-year suspension of the debt limit, kicking a new deadline into January 2027.
Bice said she expects Donald Trump and Elon Musk to support the deal, after the two derailed Johnson’s plan to pass a more than 1,500-page catch-all measure he negotiated with top Democrats earlier this week to avert a government shutdown, deliver more than $100 billion in disaster aid and enact a slew of unrelated policy priorities.
According to GOP Rep Anna Paulina Luna, “the President was instrumental in brokering the deal.”
Deal has been reached. GOP will get it done. Go team. 🏆
— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) December 19, 2024
Yes. The President was instrumental in brokering the deal. The art of the deal. https://t.co/CFMNVXHkLW
— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) December 19, 2024