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Republican congressional leaders have informed their members that they have reached an agreement on government funding, according to four Republican sources. Staff are now scrambling to complete hundreds of pages of text.

But the deal that House Speaker Mike Johnson struck with Democrats in late December is drawing widespread anger at his GOP conference, just days before the government spending deadline and weeks before the Republicans’ crucial vote from Louisiana must win to keep his hammer.

The agreement is expected to extend funding into March, averting a shutdown this year and setting up a spending showdown in the early days of the Trump administration.

The deal – which Johnson planned to announce to CNN on Tuesday afternoon – includes nearly $100 billion in disaster relief and $10 billion in relief for farmers in rural communities, these sources said.

It also includes a one-year extension of the farm bill, a provision favoring biofuels and two key health measures: one to expand telemedicine flexibility and another for pharmacy benefit managers, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

The aid to farmers is different from the disaster relief package expected to be included in this bill. According to sources, this package is largely completed and will amount to just under $100 billion.

It’s unclear when the House will vote on the plan, but leaders in both parties are confident they will avoid a government shutdown before the Friday evening deadline.

Several conservatives in the House said Tuesday they feared that Johnson and GOP negotiators had given up on too many of Democrats’ demands – leading to the kind of massive year-end package that Johnson had promised to avoid.

“It’s a total dumpster fire,” said Republican Rep. Eric Burlison of Missouri, expressing frustration with Johnson, whom he refused to endorse in January.

Their anger is largely symbolic, since most of these conservatives routinely oppose public spending deals. But the Conservatives are sending an early warning shot to Johnson, suggesting this week’s funding dispute could decide the Speaker’s fate in this leadership vote.

“We’ll see. “Everything has consequences,” said Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina when asked whether the funding bill would affect his support for Johnson next month.

In recent days, Johnson and his allies have spent hours trying to keep the Conservatives on his side during negotiations. Johnson sat down with the House Freedom Caucus for its weekly meeting Monday night to discuss some of the spending talks in detail and work to head off a conservative rebellion.

Rep. Byron Donalds, who attended that meeting, said members still wanted to see the text of the agreement: “We have a lot of questions.”

“With a deal like this, the most important question is, ‘What did the other side get?'” Donalds said.

This story and headline have been updated with additional developments.