Government shutdown live updates: Funding deal takes shape. Can it pass?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : But has Trump blessed the plan?
58% : Social Security has "dedicated funding, so it's outside of the budget process," said Craig Copeland, director of wealth benefits research at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
57% : my life isn't built around whether I have an election certificate," Roy told reporters on Friday.
57% : Funding to agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection would be on hold.
53% : Among those agencies and programs that continue on because some of their mandatory spending is not subject to annual appropriations by Congress: Medicare, Medicaid and, yes, Social Security.
46% : Lawmakers are still discussing a plan to handle raising the debt limit, working toward an agreement to raise the debt ceiling as a part of a reconciliation package next year -- the procedural process Republicans plan to use to pass big swaths of President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.- Riley BegginDozens of Republicans break from Trump, vote no on spending billNearly 12 hours until Congress' deadline to fund the government, Republicans are struggling to unify, even behind a bill backed by President-elect Donald Trump.
45% : Customs officers are the "last line of defense" in intercepting illegal drugs like fentanyl, weapons and ammunition, smuggled migrants or agricultural products that can harm the U.S. food supply, said Gustavo "Gus" Sánchez, president of the local chapter of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents customs officers.CBP essential workers are bracing for a shutdown that could upend their finances and derail their holiday plans.
43% : Trump said Wednesday that lawmakers should increase the debt ceiling now, so it happens on his predecessor's watch.
43% : Additionally, the TSA would not be able to hire new airport security screeners during the busy holiday travel season.- Eric LagattaWhat happens to Social Security if the government shuts down?
40% : "The original proposal, released by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday, had support from both sides of the aisle but was shot down by Trump and allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
38% : Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., said she's "ready to stay here through Christmas because we're not going to let Elon Musk run the government.""We had a bipartisan deal -- we should stick to it," she said in a statement.- Riley BegginTrump encourages lawmakers to reach a deal over spending levelsPresident-elect Donald Trump encouraged lawmakers to hash out their differences over spending levels now, while Joe Biden is still president, so his administration carries the blame for the looming government shut down.
36% : "He was one of the 38 House Republicans who bucked Trump by joining Democrats to vote aginst the bill.
23% : That bill was a slimmed-down version of a bipartisan plan to temporarily dodge a government shutdown, known as continuing resolution, that Trump and his allies torpedoed earlier in the week.
23% : -Zach Wichter, Nathan DillerDonald Trump is no stranger to government shutdownsIf the federal government shuts down at midnight Friday, it will mark the fourth time during Donald Trump's reign as leader of the GOP that a funding dispute closed the government's doors.
21% : A bipartisan deal that had been in the works earlier in the week was shunted after Trump, incoming Vice President JD Vance, R-Ohio, and billionaire Elon Musk pushed GOP lawmakers to reject it in a public pressure campaign.

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