众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周四晚上表示，共和党人将“重组”并“提出另一个解决方案”，此前他们与当选总统唐纳德·特朗普谈判的旨在避免政府关门的政府拨款法案未能通过。
该法案以174-235-1的投票结果未获通过，38名共和党人投了反对票。
约翰逊将法案的失败归咎于民主党。
“这项立法的唯一区别是，我们将把债务上限推至2027年1月，”约翰逊声称。“我希望你们所有人都记住，就在去年春天，同样是这些民主党人痛斥共和党人，说将债务上限作为人质是不负责任的。什么变了?”
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯(Hakeem Jeffries)庆祝该法案的失败，在一份声明中表示，共和党人对帮助美国工人阶级“不认真”。
美国当选总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周四早些时候支持众议院共和党达成的协议，该协议旨在继续为政府提供资金，以避免政府在本周末关闭。
“所有共和党人，甚至民主党人，都应该做对我们国家最有利的事情，今晚就投票支持这项法案!”特朗普在他的真相社交平台上发帖。
特朗普表示，“新达成的2024年美国救济法案将保持政府开放，为我们伟大的农民和其他人提供资金，并为那些受到毁灭性飓风严重影响的人提供救济。”
他还表示，该法案将把债务上限从明年6月提高到2027年1月。国会上次提高该国的借款限额是在2023年6月，并已暂停至2025年6月。
“对美国第一议程至关重要的一项非常重要的内容也被添加进来——非常不必要的债务上限日期将推迟两年，至2027年1月30日。现在我们可以让美国再次变得伟大，非常快，这是人民赋予我们的使命，”特朗普写道。
共和党众议院领导人和当选副总统万斯(JD Vance)希望安抚特朗普的要求，即任何为政府提供资金的立法也要处理提高或取消国家债务上限的问题，以及右翼的众议院共和党人，他们传统上反对任何支出协议或债务上限的提高。
与此同时，民主党人拒绝放弃他们最初与共和党人达成的协议，特朗普和埃隆·马斯克周三拆除了该协议。
在民主党人聚集在一起制定下一步行动的策略时，杰弗里斯称最新的提议是“可笑的”。
“马斯克-约翰逊的提议并不严肃。真是可笑。极端的MAGA共和党人正在把我们逼向政府关门，”他说。
民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金(Jamie Raskin)表示，不清楚民主党人在与谁谈判——特朗普还是马斯克。
当被问及共和党人说他们现在已经做了自己的一部分，民主党人将承担任何关闭时，拉斯金回答说，“这是一种无法容忍的方式...民主党人将试图找出如何从强加给我们的废墟中拯救公共利益。”
这项两党协议呼吁将政府支出维持在目前水平，直到3月份，并增加了其他条款，如为灾民和农民提供救济，以及为国会议员加薪。
周三，马斯克开始对X施压，多个帖子反对这笔交易，事情发生了变化。当天晚些时候，特朗普和万斯发表声明，呼吁国会“通过一项精简的支出法案”，这位当选总统呼应了马斯克的威胁，即优先考虑任何不遵守规定的共和党成员。
王牌告诉ABC新闻的乔纳森·卡尔周四早上，除非国会在他就职前取消债务上限或延长政府借款限额，否则政府将关闭。
“我们不会陷入债务上限流沙，”他说。"除非债务上限问题得到解决，否则不会有任何批准."
根据现行法律，联邦政府将在2025年春天的某个时候达到借款上限，即特朗普第二届总统任期的头几个月。然而，特朗普表示，他希望现在就解决这个问题，而乔·拜登是总统。
特朗普说:“停工只对总统有利。”
一些参议院共和党人，包括约翰·肯尼迪和麦克·轮斯，表示不满约翰逊的法案，并称赞特朗普的介入。
但是，家乡所在的州被飓风海伦摧毁的参议员托姆·蒂利斯说，他将尽一切力量减缓不包括救灾在内的任何政府拨款法案的通过。
国会面临周五晚上的最后期限，届时当前的政府拨款延期到期，国会将通过新的延期，否则非必要机构将关闭。
周四，各种各样的众议院共和党人在议长办公室进进出出，包括众议院拨款委员会主席汤姆·科尔、多数党党鞭汤姆·艾默、得克萨斯州众议员奇普·罗伊和马里兰州自由党团主席安迪·哈里斯。
杰弗里斯告诉记者，作为政府拨款法案的一部分，提高债务限额“充其量是不成熟的”
当被问及是否与约翰逊通话时，杰弗里斯说:“我们将继续保持开放的沟通渠道，看看我们能否以有利于普通美国人的方式解决这个问题。”
在周四上午的闭门会议上，杰弗里斯向民主党人传递了同样的信息:共和党人退出了两党协议，现在必须想办法脱身。
“这种混乱和功能障碍对努力工作的人产生了现实世界的影响，”佛罗里达州众议员凯西·卡斯特说。
马萨诸塞州众议员比尔·基廷。他告诉ABC新闻，杰弗里斯引用了约翰·肯尼迪总统对核心小组的讲话:“让我们永远不要出于恐惧而谈判。但让我们永远不要害怕谈判。”
“他说，看，我们在谈判中一直敞开大门。我们做出了让步。我们大多数人对这个结果不满意，但是你必须做好你的基本工作。他说这将会继续。我们对一切都持开放态度，但我们不接受埃隆·马斯克正在采取的那种欺凌策略，”基廷说。
加州民主党众议员布拉德·谢尔曼(Brad Sherman)调侃道，“我们已经达成了协议。我们谈成了一笔交易，然后马斯克决定改变这笔交易。我称他为‘马斯克总统’吗?"
得克萨斯州众议员格雷格卡萨尔，进步党团的新主席也对马斯克持批评态度。
卡萨尔说:“如果埃隆·马斯克在这里是一种角色扮演的联合总统，我不知道为什么川普不直接把椭圆形办公室交给他，或者如果他们只想让这位亿万富翁管理这个国家，议长约翰逊也许应该把小木槌交给埃隆·马斯克。”
尽管许多民主党人原则上支持取消债务上限，但成员们在闭门会议结束时反对现在就将债务上限作为支出协议的一部分，强调这应该是一个单独的问题。
House Republicans regrouping after government funding bill fails
Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday night that Republicans will "regroup" and "come up with another solution" after the government funding bill they negotiated with President-elect Donald Trump that would avert a government shutdown failed to pass.
The bill failed by a 174-235-1 vote with 38 Republicans voting against it.
Johnson blamed Democrats for the bill's failure.
“The only difference on this legislation was that we would push the debt ceiling to January of 2027,” Johnson claimed. “I want you all to remember that it was just last spring that the same Democrats berated Republicans and said that it was irresponsible to hold the debt limit, the debt ceiling, hostage. What changed?”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries celebrated the bill's defeat, saying in a statement that Republicans were “not serious” about helping working class Americans.
President-elect Donald Trump earlier Thursday endorsed the deal that House Republican reached to continue to fund the government through March and avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week.
"All Republicans, and even the Democrats, should do what is best for our Country, and vote “YES” for this Bill, TONIGHT!" Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
Trump said the "newly agreed to American Relief Act of 2024 will keep the Government open, fund our Great Farmers and others, and provide relief for those severely impacted by the devastating hurricanes."
He also said that the bill would push raising the debt ceiling to January 2027 from June of next year. Congress last raised the country's borrowing limit in June 2023 and had suspended it until June 2025.
"A VERY important piece, VITAL to the America First Agenda, was added as well - The date of the very unnecessary Debt Ceiling will be pushed out two years, to January 30, 2027. Now we can Make America Great Again, very quickly, which is what the People gave us a mandate to accomplish," Trump wrote.
GOP House leaders and Vice-President-elect JD Vance were hoping to appease both Trump's demands that any legislation to fund the government also deals with raising or eliminating the country's debt ceiling, as well as House Republicans on the right who are traditionally against any spending deal or debt limit increase.
Meanwhile, Democrats refused to budge from the deal they originally worked out with Republicans that Trump and Elon Musk demolished on Wednesday.
Jeffries called the latest proposal "laughable" as Democrats gathered to strategize their next move.
“The Musk-Johnson proposal is not serious. It’s laughable. Extreme MAGA Republicans are driving us to a government shutdown," he said.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin said it was unclear who Democrats were negotiating with -- Trump or Musk.
Asked about Republicans who say they have now done their part and that Democrats would own any shutdown, Raskin replied, "It's an intolerable way of proceeding... Democrats are going to try to figure out how to salvage the public good out of the wreckage just foist upon us."
That bipartisan deal called for extending government spending at current levels until March and added other provisions like relief for disaster victims and farmers and a pay raise for members of Congress.
Things changed Wednesday after Musk began a pressure campaign on X with multiple posts opposing the deal. Later that day Trump and Vance posted a statement calling on Congress to "pass a streamlined spending bill," with the president-elect echoing Musk's threats of primarying any GOP member who didn't comply.
Trumptold ABC News' Jonathan KarlThursday morning that there will be a government shutdown unless Congress eliminates the debt ceiling or extends the limit on government borrowing before he takes office.
"We're not going to fall into the debt ceiling quicksand," he said. "There won't be anything approved unless the debt ceiling is done with."
Under current law, the federal government would hit its borrowing limit sometime in the spring of 2025, during the first months of the second Trump presidency. Trump, however, said he wants it taken care of now, while Joe Biden is president.
"Shutdowns only inure to the person who's president," Trump said.
Some Senate Republicans, including John Kennedy and Mike Rounds,expressed displeasurewith Johnson's bill and praised Trump for stepping in.
But Sen. Thom Tillis, whose home state was devastated by Hurricane Helene, said he'd do everything in his power to slow down the passage of any government funding bill that doesn't include disaster relief.
Congress faces a deadline of Friday night, when the current government funding extension expires, to pass a new one or non-essential agencies would shut down.
House Republicans of every stripe were seen rotating in and out of the speaker's office on Thursday -- including House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, Texas Rep. Chip Roy and Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris of Maryland.
Jeffries told reporters that raising the debt limit as part of the government funding bill is "premature at best."
"We are going to continue to maintain an open line of communication to see if we can resolve this issue on terms that are favorable to the everyday Americans," Jeffries said when asked if he was speaking to Johnson.
Behind closed doors during a caucus huddle Thursday morning, Jeffries delivered the same message to Democrats: Republicans backed out of a bipartisan deal and now have to figure out a way to get out.
"This kind of chaos and dysfunction has real-world impacts on hard-working people," Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., said.
Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., told ABC News that Jeffries quoted President John F. Kennedy to the caucus: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
"He said, look, we kept all our doors open during this negotiation. We made concessions. Most of us weren't happy with the outcome of this, but you have to do your basic job. He's saying that will continue. We're open to everything, but we're not open to the kind of bullying tactics that Elon Musk is doing," Keating said.
Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., quipped, "We had a deal. We negotiated a deal, and then Musk decided to change the deal. Do I call him 'President Musk?'"
Texas Rep. Greg Casar, the new chair of the progressive caucus was also critical of Musk.
"If Elon Musk is kind of cosplaying co-president here, I don't know why Trump doesn't just hand him the Oval Office, or Speaker Johnson should maybe just hand Elon Musk the gavel if they just want that billionaire to run the country," Casar said.
While many Democrats support eliminating the debt limit in principle, members left their closed-door meeting opposed to striking it now as part of a spending deal, stressing it should be a separate matter.
