GOP Sources Say Continuing Resolution Vote Expected At Midnight After Government Shutdown Deadline

The Gateway Pundit has received confirmation from House GOP Sources that the House’s vote on a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded will likely be postponed until midnight Saturday. 

“The way that the rules work is you can’t go to the floor. It has to sit for one day after it goes to the Rules Committee, right? So we can go at midnight tonight,” said one GOP House member.

This aligns with what Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview Thursday night after the Trump-backed government funding bill failed. “It’ll now go to rules. We’ll make some modifications that people can live with, get it on the floor, get our government open, and take care of the American people,” said Mills.

The government funding deadline is Friday at 11:59 pm.

If the bill is postponed until midnight, the government will shut down until the Senate approves the House-approved CR.

This morning, Trump called on Republicans to ensure that if the government does shut down, it’s after his January 20 inauguration. “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 said.

Democrats had the opportunity to prevent a government shutdown last night but voted almost unanimously against the continuing resolution, which still funded the disaster relief programs and American farmers they purported to care about.

Vice President-elect JD Vance fired back at House Democrats last night following the failed vote, saying they “would rather shut down the government and fight for global censorship bullsh*t”— a reference to the previous 1,547-page CR, which included renewal of the embattled Global Engagement Center censorship program.

“There will likely be votes at 2, but it’ll likely drag on for a while,” said one source, though they were unsure.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Fox’s Harris Faulkner said, “House Republican leaders are expected to present three bills. One, a clean funding CR. Two, disaster relief… And three, a farm aid.”

“And they want a handshake agreement on acting on the debt limit and spending cuts next year,” Faulkner said.

The Gateway Pundit also received confirmation from a source that the debt limit will be a handshake agreement during reconciliation.

Republicans Prepare Plan C to Avoid Shutdown – Will Include Three Separate Bills

Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News also reports, "House republicans are likely to split the bill in pieces. Hold votes on different titles in the bill — CR, debt limit, ag, disaster relief."

NEWS — We hear that house republicans are likely to split the bill in pieces. Hold votes on different titles in the bill — CR, debt limit, ag, disaster relief.

This would allow each piece to pass or fail on its own merit.

This is a world of ever shifting strategy. So we’ll… https://t.co/MwNPPEt6Dz

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 20, 2024

House Republicans held a meeting this morning where they discussed "not just this continuing resolution, but a framework going forward for the next few years; what is going to be in the reconciliation, the first reconciliation bill, what needs to be in the second one," sources say.

The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates on the continuing resolution battle and potential government shutdown. 

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