The House of Representatives passed a bill to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours before the midnight federal funding deadline.

The bill, which required approval from two-thirds of the chamber, passed overwhelmingly, 366 votes to 34.

All Democrats voted for the bill except Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who voted present.

Lawmakers were searching for a path forward after an initial bill was rejected by President-elect Trump and his allies on Wednesday and a later bill approved by Trump failed in the House on Thursday.

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But Trump has remained conspicuously silent on this latest measure – which many House Republicans saw as a tacit sign of approval.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., expressed optimism after days of uncertainty, telling reporters there would be a vote by the full House on Friday as he left a closed House GOP session where leaders presented their plan.

“We will not see a government shutdown, and we will fulfill our commitments to our farmers who need assistance, to disaster victims across the country, to ensuring military and basic services, and to everyone who depends on the federal government.” paid over the holidays,” Johnson said.

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

The bill, if passed in the Senate, would extend current federal funding through mid-March, a measure known as a Continuous Resolution (CR), coupled with just over $100 billion in disaster relief for victims of the Storms Helene and Milton, as as well as support for the agricultural industry.

Johnson bypassed the House’s regular procedures to bring the legislation directly to a vote in the full House, a maneuver known as “suspending the rules.”

However, in exchange for the expedited path, the hurdle for passage was raised from a simple majority to two-thirds of the vote in the House, meaning Democratic support is crucial.

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told reporters he believes Johnson has reached an agreement with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. Massie, a longtime Johnson critic, said he would not vote for the bill.

“Trump wanted to raise the debt limit, and now we’re putting forward the exact same bill without raising the debt limit,” Massie said.

Another Republican lawmaker argued that Johnson would not move forward without Trump’s blessing.

“We wouldn’t be doing it if it weren’t for them,” said Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., when asked if Trump and Elon Musk would support the deal.

Trump and Musk led the conservative rebellion against the original plan to avert a partial shutdown, a bipartisan agreement that emerged from negotiations between the top Democrats and Republicans in both houses of Congress.

This 1,547-page bill would have extended current state funding levels through March 14. However, Republican Party hardliners were angered by what they saw as measures associated with the bill, such as a pay raise for members of Congress, health care provisions and proposed legislation aimed at revitalizing RFK Stadium in Washington, DC

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It was scrapped when Trump and Musk threatened to force out of office any lawmaker who did not support combining a CR with debt limit measures.

The debt limit is suspended until January 2025 by a previous bipartisan agreement, but Trump had pushed for Republicans to act now to avoid a messy, drawn-out dispute early in his term.

The second edition of the financing agreement was significantly slimmer at 116 pages. It excluded the stadium bill and the congressional pay raise, but still included measures to finance the reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and to fund disaster relief. In addition, the debt limit has been suspended until January 2027.

However, a House vote on the second plan went down in flames after 38 Republicans who opposed raising or suspending the debt limit and all but two Democrats voted to reject the bill.

Johnson huddled with those holdouts Friday morning, along with Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, and Vice President-elect JD Vance.

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The bill passed in the House on Friday has no impact on the debt limit, but Johnson promised in this closed session to raise the debt limit early next year as part of Republicans’ plans for sweeping policy and spending reform.

During their closed session on Friday, House Republican leaders unveiled their CR plan as well as a plan to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion, followed by $2.5 trillion in net spending cuts, several people said told Fox News Digital.

Democrats who left their own closed-door session shortly before the vote largely said they would support the bill – which they did.

President Biden has said he would sign it into law if it lands on his desk after a vote in the Senate.