A bill supported by Trump to keep the US government operating fails.

The US government is on the verge of shutting down after a spending bill supported by Donald Trump was rejected by the House of Representatives.

Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting a new funding package, defying the president-elect.

Some federal services will start to shut down in the early hours of Friday if a compromise is not reached by midnight local time.

Before the deadline, the House leadership of the Republican Party pledged to resolve the government funding stalemate.

Because of a 1980 law that essentially declared that spending cannot occur without a budget, government shutdowns are more common in the US than in most other countries.

This implies that the federal government will run out of funds if the US Congress, which is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives, does not approve a budget. Non-essential services will then start to shut down, and many public employees will no longer receive their salaries.

Essential services, primarily those pertaining to public safety, are nevertheless provided, and employees are expected to report for duty without compensation.

This typically include law enforcement, air traffic control, border security, hospital care, and power grid upkeep.

Non-essential services will be affected, including the food assistance program, federally sponsored preschool, student loan issuance, food inspections, and the opening of national parks.

38 Republicans voted against the most recent spending package on Thursday night, making it the second in as many days to fall short of the two-thirds majority required to pass the lower house of Congress.

This was in opposition to Trump, who the day before had blocked a prior cross-party funding agreement between Democrats and the Republican House leadership following harsh condemnation of the proposal from tech billionaire Elon Musk.

With dozens of postings on X, the social media site he owns, the Tesla creator, who Trump has charged with finding expenditure cuts by co-leading the Department of Government Efficiency (an unofficial government agency), vigorously agitated against the current agreement.

He referred to it as "criminal" and frequently made incorrect claims regarding the measure in his posts.

That any lawmaker "who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years" is what Musk tweeted on X.

Trump and the incoming vice president, JD Vance, delivered the ultimate blow to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson's agreement on Wednesday night after Musk mobilized opposition to the budget bill.

In a unified statement, they expressed their desire for simplified legislation free of Johnson's Democratic-backed restrictions.

Additionally, they demanded that Congress restrict funding legislation to disaster relief and temporary spending, and raise or abolish the debt ceiling, which sets the amount the government may borrow to pay its debts.

"A betrayal of our country" is what they labeled anything else.

Johnson stated he would find a different solution before government financing expires at midnight on Friday, following the initial bill's 174-to-235 defeat.

Republican rebels objected because they opposed increases in government spending, and Democrats voted against it because they claimed the additional borrowing would be used to provide tax breaks to the wealthy. The House then voted on this revised version on Thursday, which included some concessions to Trump's demands.

Another budget deadline was approaching in September, which is when the present impasse began.

Democrats voted against Johnson's six-month budget extension because it included a measure (the SAVE Act) requiring citizenship proof to vote.

Rather, Congress reached a bipartisan agreement on a minimal bill that would ensure government funding through the end of December 20.

What will happen next is unclear.

With less than twenty-four hours remaining before an impending shutdown, lawmakers are scheduled to resume on Friday morning.

Even though both chambers must support the bill for it to pass, the partisan blame game is already well underway. Johnson told reporters it was "very disappointing" that nearly all House Democrats had voted against the bill after it was defeated on Thursday.

However, Johnson is unlikely to receive backing from Democrats who will accuse him of breaching their bipartisan agreement and support a revised funding package.

Others appeared to mock Republicans for appearing to follow Musk's unelected leadership.

To the amusement of her fellow Democrats, Connecticut Representative Rosa DeLauro, the House's top Democratic appropriator, referred to the billionaire as "President Musk" on Thursday's House floor.

Johnson faces additional difficulties because the House will vote in 15 days to choose the Speaker of the House for the upcoming Congress.

What formerly appeared to be a stable job for Johnson is now less certain.

Johnson is not the only one in a difficult position; many current congressional Republicans flinched during Thursday's vote, which was the first significant test of Trump's power over them.

The longest government shutdown in history lasted from December 21, 2018, to January 25, 2019. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), it decreased foreign economic output by almost $11 billion, including $3 billion that was never recovered.