Welcome to the News Hour. House Republicans are pushing a new proposal tonight to avoid a government

shutdown in an effort to meet President-elect Donald Trump's last-minute spending demands.

It's all unfolding after Mr. Trump rejected the original bill earlier this week,

with billionaire Elon Musk leading the charge against it online. Our Lisa Desjardin has the latest and joins us now.

Lisa, it's good to see you. So what did Republicans change in this last minute revision?

This has been another whirlwind of a day here on Capitol Hill and a pivotal one, both for government function itself and also for Speaker Mike Johnson.

Let me go over the bill that Speaker Johnson and House Republicans unveiled just over an hour

or so ago.

Here's what's in it.

It would extend government funding for another three months.

It would add billions in funding, about $100 billion in dollars in funding for disasters,

including recent hurricanes.

Now, this is new.

It would extend the debt ceiling for two additional years.

The debt ceiling is likely to hit in the spring of next year in the Trump administration.

It would also extend the Farm Bill for one year.

That debt ceiling extension was something specifically that President-elect Donald Trump

and Vice President-elect Vance had asked for, and it was not on the negotiating table until

President-elect Trump brought it up.

Today, President-elect Trump posted on social media that he, in fact,

does support this new version of the bill. As you see there, he wrote, all Republicans and

even Democrats should do what is best for our country and vote yes. Now, as details were emerging,

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