Democratic and Republican lawmakers are expressing concern over a possible government shutdown as members of the House Freedom Caucus create barriers over their dissatisfaction with the debt ceiling deal.

Several conservative members blocked significant legislation from passing in a nearly weeklong shutdown that ended Wednesday. The end of the stalemate came after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) agreed to meet their demand to write multiple 2024 spending bills at fiscal 2022 levels.

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Multiple members of the Appropriations Committee, the group responsible for crafting spending bills, have worries over the challenges this will add for the committee as the demands from the House Freedom Caucus conflict with those of the federal government agreement.

“It’s going to be a problem,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), an Appropriations Committee member, said in an interview with the Hill. “We’ll go into a collaborative conference, try to hash it out,” Capito added. “But I don’t think it’s going to be easy.”

Lawmakers are advocating against diverting from the debt plan made between President Joe Biden and McCarthy. It was signed on June 3 to avert a debt default.

“And at the end of the day, any spending agreement that is arrived at by the end of the year has to be consistent with the resolution of the default process — otherwise, what was it all for?” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said, per Roll Call.

The Senate needs to have a spending deal by the end of September, or the government could face a shutdown. The House and Senate are balancing members of the Freedom Caucus wanting deep spending cut demands and GOP senators who are hesitant to make defense cuts.

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“I’m not concerned that we lack the capacity to do it,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), an Appropriations Committee member, told the Hill. “But we have to have the will to get on it.”

The GOP-led committee demanded federal budget cuts in the debt ceiling plan.