Details of the emergency spending bill are expected to be delayed and possibly “postponed by a day” as the deadline to avoid a government shutdown approaches.

Lawmakers were expected to release the text of the emergency spending bill on Sunday to prevent a government shutdown and address disaster relief. However, Fox News was told the text “could slip by a day.”

House and Senate lawmakers are negotiating how large the disaster relief package should be and whether it should be attached to a year-end federal funding bill that is crucial to avoiding a partial government shutdown during the holiday season.

This could be a problem as government funding expires on Friday at 11:59:59 p.m. A postponement means the House may not be able to act on the bill until the end of the week.

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Damage from Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. (National Weather Service)

It also points out that if senators are asking for time, it won’t take much for the Senate to slow things down.

The House of Representatives has a so-called “three-day rule,” which requires the text to be published for three days before debate and voting. But waiting until tomorrow means the House may not consider the bill until Thursday or Friday — the peak of the deadline.

Fox News has been told there are no delays in government funding or disaster relief packages for Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the Maui wildfires, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore and the Midwest tornadoes as of mid-March. But there are agricultural provisions “and other things that are important to leaders on both sides.”

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President Biden wrote to Speaker Mike Johnson about disaster relief after Helene and Milton. (Getty Images)

A source declined to answer when Fox News asked whether there were attempts to include last-minute supplies in the Syria or drone gathering effort.

In early October, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News Digital that Helene would likely be “one of the costliest storms the country has ever experienced.”

The Biden administration has asked for over $100 billion in disaster relief after Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus is calling on Republican leaders to reject President Biden’s request for disaster relief.

President Biden, accompanied by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (R), provides an update on the government’s response to hurricanes Milton and Helene in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on October 11, 2024 in Washington, DC

The group is calling for a slimmed-down package that covers what is “absolutely necessary” and is to be offset by spending cuts elsewhere.

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“Congress should not, in the waning days of Democratic control in Washington, just before Republicans take control of the White House and both chambers, pass a whopping $100 billion unpaid disaster supplemental funding bill — giving Democrats their own independent priorities,” the congressman said, reading a statement from the House Freedom Caucus.

“The House should only consider what is absolutely necessary right now to provide vital relief to hurricane victims and farmers, pay for it with offsets from wasteful spending elsewhere in government, and then wait for President Trump to take office to to better manage disaster relief.” “

If new spending is not approved through budget proposals or a stopgap measure, there could be a partial government shutdown before Christmas.

Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

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