Vice President-elect JD Vance met with Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans on Thursday night, hours after the spending deal failed in the House of Representatives.

Vance was in Johnson’s office along with a handful of Republican lawmakers to discuss government funding and Friday’s looming shutdown deadline. It’s unclear as of Friday morning what Republicans will do or if a shutdown is inevitable.
When Vance was walking down the hallway, a reporter asked, “Mr. Vance, will you accept any deal that does not include a debt limit increase?”

Vance shot back, “Look, I’ll say one thing. The Democrats just voted to shut down the government, even though we had a clean CR, because they didn’t want to give the president negotiating leverage during his first term — during the first year of his new term. And number two, because they would rather shut down the government and fight for global censorship bullsh*t. They’ve asked for a shutdown and I think that’s exactly what they’re going to.”

Vance walked away as several reporters continued to shout questions at him about the spending bill and what Republicans were planning to do next.