US Congress scrambles to try to avert looming shutdown after Trump demand rejected

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US Congress scrambles to try to avert looming shutdown after Trump demand rejected
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FILE PHOTO: Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters ahead of a vote to pass the American Relief Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2024. The legislation failed to pass the House in a 174-235 vote. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden/File Photo

Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was trying to plot a course that could pass both his chamber, with narrow Republican control, and the Democratic-majority Senate, as a midnight Friday funding deadline loomed. Conservative Republicans on Thursday rejected Trump's demand to lift the debt limit, which could add trillions more to the government's $36 trillion in debt.

"Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling. Without this, we should never make a deal," Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform shortly after 1 a.m.

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