It was government shutdown season in Washington, and all through the House, many creatures were stirring — most notably Elon Musk.
Still a month away from the White House, Trump and his billionaire backer threw Congress' plans to get home for the holidays into chaos over a government funding bill.Lawmakers in Congress were expecting a glide path to the holidays. They had a bipartisan deal that would keep the government funded and send them all on their merry way back to their districts.
“To say this is alarming and a setback is an absolute understatement,” a veteran Republican operative said. Donald Trump Jr. — who had also been posting in opposition to the first bill — said in a brief interview Thursday that the original continuing resolution that his father effectively tanked was “ridiculous.”
Sean Hannity said there’s “a new sheriff in town.” Jesse Watters said Musk “blew up the bill all day.” “Yes, I think this bill is better than it was yesterday on certain respects, but to take this bill … and congratulate yourself because it’s shorter in pages — but increases the debt by $5 trillion — is asinine, and that’s precisely what Republicans are doing,” Roy said in a fiery floor speech before the so-called plan B budget deal was defeated. which is often used as a political football — without significant spending reductions in exchange.
Still, at a gathering of conservative activists across the country in Phoenix on Thursday, there was jubilation that they had managed to torpedo the original legislation. “There is no new agreement right now, just, you know, obviously looking at a number of options,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters after the second budget deal was defeated.
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