The Latest: Trump-backed plan on government shutdown fails in House vote

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Recipients of both Social Security and Medicare would continue to receive their benefits, which are part of mandatory spending that's not subject to annual appropriations measures.
52% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW"We have an agreement and I expect a vote tonight," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee that deals with federal spending.
50% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWAutomated tax collection would stay on track, but the Internal Revenue Service would stop auditing tax returns.
49% : "Trump declares 'success' with new budget planThe president-elect announced that there is a new plan to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown, urging Congress to swiftly pass it in votes as soon as Thursday evening.
49% : But national parks and monuments would close, and while troops would stay at their posts, many civilian employees in agencies like the Department of Defense would be sent home.
48% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWIt adds one important provision Trump says he needs: It suspends the nation's debt limit from Jan. 1 of next year to Jan. 30, 2027.
46% : ""Republicans are breaking their word to support a bipartisan agreement that would lower prescription drug costs and make it harder to offshore jobs to China -- and instead putting forward a bill that paves the way for tax breaks for billionaires while cutting critical programs working families count on, from Social Security to Head Start," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
46% : Johnson could ask Democrats to help him pass a very stop-gap measure -- say a few days or a week of government funding -- to push past the Christmas holidays and relaunch negotiations in the new year.
46% : It's just that their motivations are different from what Trump's appear to be.
39% : Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to a very good Deal," Trump posted.
38% : These are all a preview of what's to come when Republicans control Congress and Donald Trump is in the White House, said one senior GOP Republican.
38% : The irony is that lots of budget wonks would also like to see the legal cap on government borrowing go away.
34% : Cole provided no further details on what the deal entails or whether Democrats were consulted.Republicans have been huddled in Speaker Mike Johnson's office Thursday to discuss what to do after President-elect Donald Trump demanded that government funding be paired with an increase in the debt limit.
32% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWThe most recent shutdown was six years ago when Trump demanded funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
31% : Republican obstructionists have to be done away with," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
30% : The irony is that deficits might be higher in the coming years because of the tax cuts that Trump wants to extend and sign into law.
29% : Womack called Wednesday's social media posts from Trump and Elon Musk a "gut shot" to House Speaker Mike Johnson that "just absolutely eviscerated that plan.
27% : Trump is vowing to fight until the end.
24% : Anything else is a betrayal of our country," Trump said in a joint statement Wednesday night with Vance.
23% : By demanding Biden scrap the debt ceiling, Trump could blame the higher budget deficits over the next few years on his predecessor by playing on a public perception that the debt ceiling enabled it.
21% : ▶ Read how the scuttled bear would have helped farmersTrump's call to eliminate the debt ceiling throws a monkey wrench into funding negotiationsIn the past, Democrats have been open to the idea of eliminating the debt ceiling, as Trump has suggested.
20% : Now Trump is looking for Johnson to pass a debt ceiling extension days before a partial government shutdown.
18% : "How wonks feel about the debit limit dramaTrump wants Congress and Biden to scrap the debt limit -- his big requirement for averting a government shutdown.
16% : Republican congressman responds to Trump's primary threatShortly after Trump threatened to primary a fellow Republican for not agreeing to his debt limit demands, that congressman responded on the social platform X, saying that he has "no apologies" for his position on the issue.
15% : The outcome proved a massive setback for Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk, who rampaged against Johnson's bipartisan compromise, which Republicans and Democrats had reached earlier to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown.
13% : Trump signaled awareness of farmers' concernsEven as he rejected the deal, Trump suggested that he was at least cognisant of concerns in farm country, which voted heavily for him in the election.
10% : Top Democrats have signaled, for now, that they're in no mood to bargain Johnson and Trump out of their problems.
8% : Trump continues primary threats, this time going after far-right Texas lawmakerFor the second day in a row, Trump doled out threats to Republican congressmen not willing to fall in line with his 11th-hour ask to include a debt limit increase with a short-term government funding package.

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