Hours after the House of Representatives’ spending agreement failed, Vice President-elect JD Vance met with Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans on Thursday evening.

Vance and a few other Republican lawmakers were in Johnson’s office to talk about government funding and the impending shutdown deadline on Friday. As of Friday morning, it’s unclear if a shutdown is inevitable or what Republicans will do.

“Mr. Vance, will you accept any deal that does not include a debt limit increase?” a reporter asked as Vance was moving down the hallway.

“Look,” Vance shot back, “I’ll say one thing. Despite having a clean CR, the Democrats simply voted to shut down the government because they didn’t want to give the president any negotiating leverage during his first term or the first year of his second. Second, they would prefer to overthrow the government and engage in global censorship nonsense. They have requested a shutdown, and I believe they will do just that.

As a number of reporters kept yelling questions at him about the spending bill and what Republicans were going to do next, Vance turned to leave.