The Senate is on track to pass a stopgap bill after its passage in the House earlier Friday. However, the upper chamber ran past the midnight deadline, meaning there will be a technical government shutdown,

Barring a pre-Christmas legislative miracle, the US government will plunge into a partial shutdown at midnight Friday after Musk tanked a year-end spending deal and the Trump doubled down with a demand for new debt spending authority that he never had a chance of getting through Congress.