Congress has limited time to avert a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution after the latest Trump-backed bill failed Thursday.

House Republicans are eyeing a new spending proposal that would tee up votes on three separate measures: to fund the government, appropriate disaster relief and allocate farm assistance, three

The U.S. House voted down a new spending bill endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump. Photo: Andrew Harnik/; C-SPAN WASHINGTON—House Republicans’ slimmed-down plan to try to avert a government shutdown was defeated in a hastily called vote Thursday,

President-elect Trump wields tremendous power among GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate, but his struggle to convince Republicans to bend to his will on the debt ceiling suggest it has its limits. Thirty-eight conservative Republicans on Thursday voted against a stopgap funding measure that included a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling,

The bill would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops President-elect Donald Trump's demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.

The latest episode of House Republicans’ fiscal-policy psychodrama featured a familiar problem—how to unite a fractious and slim majority around a continuing resolution, or CR, to keep the government open.