House Republican leaders are moving toward a vote on a stopgap spending measure Thursday to avoid a shutdown, but it's unclear if there are enough GOP votes or if President Donald Trump's tweets could derail their efforts.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and his lieutenants were up against the clock and their own ranks as they scrambled to lock down votes, and that was before Trump tweeted that a key sweetener for Senate Democrats -- a six-year re-authorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program -- should not be included in a short-term measure. 

"CHIP should be part of a long-term solution, not a 30-day, or short-term, extension!," Trump wrote in a tweet originally interpreted as disparaging the current proposal to keep the government funded, though congressional Republicans later said the president was fully on board with that plan.

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