WASHINGTON — With just hours until the federal government is shut down for lack of funds, House Republicans plan to vote Friday on funding the government for three months and providing disaster relief and farm aid.

But to pass the full House before the midnight shutdown deadline, the bill, released late Friday afternoon, needs significant Democratic support. There also needs to be a realistic path to passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he was determined to avoid a shutdown that could jeopardize the paychecks of hundreds of thousands of federal workers just days before Christmas.

“We will not have a government shutdown,” Johnson told reporters at the Capitol on Friday afternoon. “We will fulfill our commitments to our farmers who need assistance and disaster victims across the country and ensure that military and essential services, as well as everyone who relies on a federal government paycheck, are paid through the holidays.”

It was not clear how Democrats, led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., would respond to the standalone bill. But the early signs were encouraging.

“This is a bill that may have the confidence of enough Democrats to help the House speaker push the bill through,” Rep. James Clyburn, D-N.C., a longtime party leader, said on “Deadline White House.” ” from MSNBC.

According to Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News, Jeffries told a group of politically vulnerable Democrats earlier in the day that he hoped to resolve the standoff.

The vote would cap several days of chaos on Capitol Hill as Johnson tried to meet President-elect Donald Trump’s demands – but failed.

Trump and his billionaire campaign donor Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, doomed an initial, negotiated financing plan on Wednesday by sharply criticizing its provisions, leaving Republicans struggling for much of Thursday to come up with a replacement plan find.

Specifically, Trump insisted that any agreement to keep the government open must include a two-year suspension of the U.S. debt limit. The limit is the maximum amount the federal government can borrow to pay its expenses.

The debt ceiling is a recurring, bitter debate in Washington every few years, in which the political party in the minority typically has a lot of influence. Trump seems keen to avoid this fight as he begins his second term.

But authorizing the United States to borrow more money goes too far for many conservative Republicans.

This became clear when Thursday’s bill, which proposed minimal government funding and a debt ceiling increase, received a resounding rejection. In addition to almost all Democrats, 38 rank-and-file Republicans voted against it after their party’s leader publicly supported the agreement.

If Friday’s efforts to avert a shutdown are successful, it will remind Trump how difficult it is to control the notoriously divided House Republican caucus.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.