House Speaker Mike Johnson has reportedly secured a tentative agreement with his Democratic colleagues in both chambers of Congress to avert a rapidly approaching government shutdown.The development comes less than a week after defections in his own party defeated the speaker’s attempt to pass a spending bill paired with extra legislation prohibiting non-citizens from voting.

The new plan to avert a government shutdown comes after the House rejected Speaker Johnson's opening gambit in the funding fight last week.

The House speaker will try again to avert a government shutdown, this time with a “bare-bones” continuing resolution.