House Republicans Wednesday set a tentative plan to take up a short-term spending bill that would keep the government funded until Jan. 19, but planned to strip out a year-long defense funding measure that faced a Senate filibuster, and was likely to set up a separate vote on a new disaster relief package.

Republicans met in the Capitol basement shortly after returning from a celebratory meeting at the White House, where they cheered passage of a major tax overhaul.