The House of Representatives will soon vote on a bill backed by President-elect Trump to avert a government shutdown.

It comes after two days of chaos in Congress as lawmakers bickered among themselves over a path forward on government spending – a fight joined by Trump and his allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

The national debt has now risen to over $36 trillion and the national deficit is over $1.8 trillion.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference Friday, April 12, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., as Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump listens. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

The legislation was rushed through Thursday after Republican hardliners led by Musk and Ramaswamy rebelled against an initial bipartisan deal that would have extended the federal funding deadline to March 14 and included a number of independent political campaigners.

The new deal also includes several key policies unrelated to maintaining government openness, but the 116-page bill is much narrower than its 1,547-page predecessor.

Like the original bill, the new version extended the federal funding deadline to March 14 while also suspending the debt ceiling — something Trump had pushed for.

It has proposed suspending the debt limit for two years until January 2027, keeping it in place through Trump’s term but postponing that fight until after the 2026 congressional midterm elections.

Elon Musk helped push through the original bipartisan deal. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

The new proposal also included about $110 billion in disaster relief for Americans affected by storms Milton and Helene, as well as a measure to cover the costs of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which was struck by a barge earlier this year .

Excluded from the second measure are the first pay raise for members of Congress since 2009 and a measure to revitalize RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.

The text of the new bill has also been significantly shorter – from 1,547 pages to just 116.

“All Republicans and even Democrats should do what is best for our country and vote YES on this bill TONIGHT!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

But the bill faced opposition before the text of the law was even published.

Democrats, enraged that Johnson had broken their original bipartisan agreement, chanted “Hell no” in their closed conference session Thursday night to debate the bill.

Almost all House Democrats who left the session said they voted against it.

Meanwhile, members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus also said they would vote against the bill.

“Old Bill: $110B Deficit Spending (Unpaid), $0 National Credit Card Increase. New bill: $110 billion in deficit spending (unpaid), debt ceiling increase of over $4 trillion, and structural reforms for $0 in cuts. Time to read the bill: 1.5 hours, I will vote no,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote on X.