Government shutdown live updates: Biden signs bill that averts government shutdown

According to multiple sources, Republican House leadership laid out two options at the conference meeting to fund the government.

One option is a clean continuing resolution to fund the government at current levels until March without debt limit suspension. The vote would be held under suspension of the rules, requiring a two-thirds majority.

The other choice is to hold separate votes on a clean continuing resolution to March, on additional disaster relief and on an extension of farm bill.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., declined to provide details on what the next step is to avert a government shutdown as he emerged from the meeting.

"So, we are talking through different options," Scalise said.

Asked by ABC News' Jay O'Brien if taking the debt limit out of the equation defies Trump, Scalise responded: "The debt limit is taken out because the Democrats walked away from that last night."

Sources tell ABC News Republicans also came to an "agreement" to raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion in the first reconciliation package with a $2.5 trillion cut in net mandatory spending in the reconciliation process. This was presented to members in the closed-door meeting.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday blasted Republicans for prioritizing Elon Musk's budget ideas over child cancer research.

Musk helped to tank a bipartisan spending bill that included over $100 million for pediatric cancer research. The second funding bill pitched by House Republicans, which failed to pass on Thursday night, did not contain those funds.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday blasted Republicans for prioritizing Elon Musk's budget ideas over child cancer research.

The initial compromise bill also included new policy provisions to help kids with cancer on Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid travel across state lines to receive gene therapies in other states. It also had a provision to allow studies and clinical trials for kids with a combination of drugs and treatments.

It also had language to protect rural broadband customers from predatory and junk service providers; a provision to prohibit deepfake porn; an entire bill about strengthening semiconductor supply chains; and new provisions going after hotels for hidden fees.

Provisions aimed at countering concerns about China's influence that both parties share were also in the bipartisan bill. The language would have hemmed in some American investment in China by blocking some transactions in some areas like technology and chip manufacturing, and would have mandated U.S. government reviews of Chinese real estate purchases near American national security sites.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if Americans should be prepared for the government to shut down.

"I think there's still time. We believe there's still time for that to not happen, for Republicans to do the right thing, to hold up their part of the deal and move forward with the bipartisan agreement," she said. "There's still time and our focus is keeping the government open. That's what we want to see. And we hope Republicans want to do that."

Asked if President Joe Biden would remain in Washington should a shutdown occur, Jean-Pierre rejected getting into hypotheticals.

"We believe, as I just said moments ago, there's still time to get to a bypass, to get to a deal here or move forward," she said.

Jean-Pierre noted, though, that agencies began notifying employees at noon on Friday of their potential furlough in preparation for a possible shutdown.

President Joe Biden, who has yet to publicly weigh in on the funding battle, has been in touch with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday.

Jean-Pierre told reporters at the daily briefing that Biden has been getting regular updates about what's unfolding on Capitol Hill.

When pressed on why Biden hasn't spoken out himself, Jean-Pierre said Republicans bear the responsibility to fix this issue.

"Americans need to know that Republicans are getting in the way here, and they are the ones who have created this mess," she said. "That's the reality. That's the fact."

"This is not the first time we've been here, and the president has had this approach before. He understands how Congress works," she continued. "He's been around for some time. He understand what strategy works here to get this done."