House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) maintained that Republicans will move forward with President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to increase the debt limit, saying it will be tucked into the massive reconciliation bill GOP leaders plan to pass by early spring. 

The debt limit fight arose in mid-December after Trump made an eleventh-hour demand for Republicans to include it in the government spending deal, something many hard-line Republicans rejected.

Instead, GOP leaders made a handshake agreement with holdouts to include the debt ceiling increase in their forthcoming reconciliation bill in exchange for spending cuts elsewhere — something that would allow Republicans to circumvent Democrats on the details but would require Johnson to get his most unruly members on board.