Donald Trump and Elon Musk loom over more chaos in Congress
The US government will shut down at 12.01am ET on Saturday unless Congress passes a stop-gap federal funding bill in time. But the politics are fraught and the consequences could include a halt to many federal programmes and payments to employees. President-elect Donald Trump has already torpedoed one bipartisan deal proposed by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, plunging Capitol Hill deeper into chaos.
“The government can shut down all the way until Jan 20th as far as I’m concerned,” Republican firebrand congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X this week. “AND WE MUST STAND FIRM WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO STOP THE MADNESS! Musk, who has been appointed by Trump to head up an efficiency drive in the new administration, has been an outspoken critic of government excess and played a leading role in scuppering the initial bipartisan bill.
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