President-elect Donald Trump endorsed a revamped stopgap spending plan put forward by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson late Thursday, just one day after Trump and Elon Musk torpedoed a deal needed to avert a government shutdown as soon as this weekend.

Trump backed the spending proposal crafted by Johnson and fellow GOP leaders that reportedly cut out a pay raise for lawmakers and tweaked some other provisions of the previous bill that he and Musk bitterly trashed.

It would also suspend the debt ceiling for more than two years but not permanently repeal it, as Trump demanded hours earlier.

“The newly agreed to American Relief Act of 2024 will keep the government open, fund our great farmers and others, and provide relief for those severely impacted by the devastating hurricanes,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “All Republicans, and even the Democrats, should do what is best for our country, and vote yes for this bill.”

Musk retweeted a post from a Trump spokesperson about the new deal, suggesting he also supports it.

It wasn’t clear if Democrats would get behind the retooled measure after Republicans walked away from the plan that leaders from both parties meticulously negotiated over several weeks.

The possible breakthrough came less than 36 hours before the government would start to shut down on Friday night unless Congress acts.

With a shutdown just hours away, Trump earlier declared he wanted Johnson to force a new deal through Congress without making any concessions, a virtually impossible mission since any deal would need Democratic support to pass.

Trump also suggested Congress should eliminate the debt ceiling, a complicated and divisive issue that most Republicans have opposed, and pass a stopgap spending bill including only Republican priorities like aid to farmers.

He sought to blame Democrats and President Joe Biden for a potential shutdown, even though it’s Republicans who are refusing to pass a spending bill.

“If there’s going to be a shutdown, we’re going to start it with a Democratic president,” Trump told NBC News.

The president-elect and top supporter billionaire Elon Musk effectively sunk a deal that Johnson had struck with Democrats to fund the government through mid-March.

Unless Congress enacts a new spending plan, big chunks of the government would shut down starting this weekend and non-essential workers would be furloughed. Given the calendar, it’s unlikely anything would reopen until after New Year’s.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said GOP dysfunction would be to blame for any shutdown. He opposes repealing the debt ceiling as part of any last-minute deal.

“This reckless Republican-driven shutdown can be avoided if House Republicans will simply do what is right for the American people and and stick with the bipartisan agreement they negotiated,” Jeffries told reporters.

Musk, who has been tapped by Trump to lead a new budget-cutting organization called the Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE), took the first step in trashing Johnson’s deal on Wednesday, warning any Republican that supports it should be ousted from Congress.

He later said Congress should not pass any legislation until Trump returns to the White House, an edict that would result in a month-long government shutdown.

Along with funding the government, the sprawling so-called continuing resolution initially included $100 billion in aid for those impacted by hurricanes Helene and Milton, aid to struggling farmers and a grab bag of other priorities designed to attract votes from lawmakers in both parties.

Johnson pitched the plan as the best way to delay important decisions until the next Congress. After Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, the Republican-majority House will hold a trifecta of power with the White House and Senate.

Many Republican lawmakers opposed the bill because it includes what they consider to be unnecessary spending. But it was considered likely to pass anyway with wide Democratic backing.

But Musk, and later Trump, blew up that plan with their 11th hour attacks.

Republicans hold a narrow majority of a couple of seats in the House, but are unable to pass spending bills without Democratic support because some conservatives oppose all government funding measures without major cuts that most others oppose.

Any spending bill would also need to pass the Senate, which is still held by Democrats, and win the support of President Biden to sign it into law.

The ugly internal GOP feud could also endanger Johnson’s hold on the speaker’s gavel, with a handful of right-wing lawmakers vowing to topple him in the next Congress.

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