BALDWIN: Here we go. Hour two. You are watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Breaking news from Capitol Hill. One day after this major success of sweeping tax reform here, Republicans are at risk of an embarrassing failure of a government shutdown. If that happens, we are also getting word of a possible short-term solution. The House is expected to vote this afternoon on stop-gap measure to let the parties have time to hash out the sticking points. This coming before the deadline of midnight tomorrow. As lawmakers scramble in the final 33 hours, the president is tweeting this, "House Democrats want a shutdown over the holidays in order to detract from very popular tax cuts. House Republicans, don't let this happen. Pass the C.R. today" -- continuing resolution -- "and keep our government open." So let's go to Sunlen Serfaty, who is up on the Hill for us. How close is this House vote right now and what needs to happen?</s>SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just a couple of hours away, Brooke, from the House voting on short term C.R., and that's certainly a big sign that the Republican leadership in the House is confident that they have the votes they need to get this passed through today. Then of course, it would go over to the Senate, where they would potentially vote on it, maybe as early as today. We don't have a timeline for that yet. But the signs are certainly there that all of this is starting to come together. We have talked about in recent days how behind the scenes you had a lot of House Republicans disagreeing go over what exactly was going to be included in this bill. A lot of competing priorities of what would be included.
Republicans Scramble to Avoid Government Shutdown.