Vice President-elect JD Vance met with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday night time, hours after President-elect Trump torpedoed the GOP chief’s spending deal.
Vance was in Johnson’s workplace for practically an hour, as a handful of Republican lawmakers huddled to debate authorities funding and Friday’s looming shutdown deadline.
Rising from that assembly, Vance mentioned the group had a “productive conversation.”
“I’m not gonna say anything else, more about it tonight because we’re in the middle of these negotiations,” he added. “But I think we’ll be able to solve some problems here and we’ll keep working on it.”
Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise (R-La.), equally, mentioned the group had a “good, productive meeting” after rising from Johnson’s workplace Wednesday night time, however mentioned “we’re still working through it.”
“We’re gonna continue to work through the night, in the morning, to get to an agreement we can bring to the floor,” he added.
The late-night huddle comes as Republicans, led by Johnson, regroup and chart a path ahead to avert a shutdown by Friday’s deadline after Trump and his allies slammed the funding measure congressional negotiators rolled out on Tuesday.
That laws would have funded the federal government by means of March 14, prolong the farm invoice for one 12 months and applicable roughly $100 billion in catastrophe aid and $10 billion in financial help for farmers, amongst different authorizations.
Home Republicans of all stripes got here out in opposition to the laws even earlier than it was launched. As soon as Johnson rolled out the notably, Trump, Vance and their shut allies joined the fray.
Trump and Vance issued a joint assertion on Wednesday criticizing the bundle and calling on Congress to cross a brief funding invoice that features a rise within the debt restrict.
“Anything else is a betrayal of our country,” they wrote.
Trump continued his criticism on Reality Social, at one level threatening main challengers in opposition to any Republican that helps the funding deal.
