Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, where we're following breaking news as we are now just eight hours away from the government shutting down.

And we're expecting a vote any time now

on House Republicans' latest plan to keep the government open. This new bill comes after

Republicans huddled for hours today, trying to figure out a way forward. After a Trump-backed

bill failed on the House floor last night, that came after the President-Delect's opposition

tank the bipartisan deal that was announced earlier this week. So where are we right now?

Well, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson said in the last hour that he will brief President

elect Trump on the new plan, which, according to sources, involves a package to extend

government funding through March 14th,

disaster relief, and an extension of the farm bill.

It does not include what Trump explicitly called for, either an abolishment or suspension

of the debt ceiling.

That 11th hour demand from the president-elect on the debt ceiling was part of the bill

that failed dramatically on the House ceiling was part of the bill that

failed dramatically on the House floor last night after 38 House Republicans joined Democrats

to vote against it.

Now, this afternoon, Speaker Johnson was tight-lipped on the details, but promised House Republicans

were united and that a shutdown would be avoided.

There is a unanimous agreement in the room that we need to move forward.

I will not telegraph to you the specific details of that yet because I've got a couple of

things.

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