House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major confrontation with Democrats over the contours of government spending.

Speaker Mike Johnson will attempt to hold the fractious Republican majority together and muscle the 100-page bill through the House on Tuesday.

Congress has one week to pass a spending bill that would avert a shutdown, but lawmakers from both parties are not on the same page about how they'll move forward.

In an attempt to motivate their voters and donors, a leading Democratic outside group recently launched ads in nearly two dozen House races to seize on Elon Musk’s role in slashing jobs in the federal government and paint GOP incumbents as willing to cut spending on health care for children and elderly to benefit billionaires.

His unusual governing arrangement with President Trump is opening Republicans up to being yoked politically to Mr. Musk, who polls show is broadly unpopular.

Elon Musk has taken a swipe at the Democratic party being called 'right-wing extremists', as he claimed he was a 'Democrat from 20 years ago' in a social media post