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Trump points spending invoice ultimatum to Speaker Johnson as shutdown looms
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Trump points spending invoice ultimatum to Speaker Johnson as shutdown looms

Last updated: December 19, 2024 4:18 pm
Editorial Board Published December 19, 2024
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President-elect Trump urged Home Speaker Mike Johnson to “act decisively” and reject compromise with Democrats on Thursday after Trump and Elon Musk torpedoed a spending deal to avert a authorities shutdown as quickly as this weekend.

With a shutdown simply hours away, Trump declared that he needs the GOP chief to power a brand new deal by Congress with out making concessions, a nearly unattainable mission since any deal would want Democratic help to move.

Trump additionally steered Congress ought to increase the debt ceiling, an advanced and divisive subject that almost all Republicans oppose, and move a stopgap spending invoice together with solely Republican priorities like support to farmers.

The president-elect and high supporter billionaire Elon Musk successfully sunk a deal that Johnson had struck with Democrats to fund the federal government by mid-March.

Until Congress enacts a brand new spending plan, large chunks of the federal government would shut down beginning this weekend and non-essential employees can be furloughed. Given the calendar, it’s unlikely something would reopen till after New 12 months’s.

Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch of the sixth take a look at flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Photograph by Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures)

Democratic leaders say they may solely help the stopgap spending cope with Johnston that either side negotiated over a number of weeks.

Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries mentioned GOP dysfunction can be in charge for any shutdown.

Vice President-elect JD Vance met with Johnson late Thursday night time to hunt a way ahead however there was no breakthrough reported.

Musk, who has been tapped by Trump to steer a brand new price range slicing group referred to as the Division of Authorities Effectivity, took step one in trashing Johnson’s deal on Wednesday, warning any Republican that helps it must be ousted from Congress.

He later mentioned Congress shouldn’t move any laws till Trump returns to the White Home, an edict that will lead to a month-long authorities shutdown.

Together with funding the federal government, the sprawling so-called persevering with decision included $100 billion in support for these impacted by hurricanes Helene and Milton, support to struggling for farmers and a seize bag of different priorities designed to draw votes from lawmakers in each events.

Johnson pitched the plan as one of the best ways to delay essential choices till the subsequent Congress. After Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, the Republican-majority Home will maintain a trifecta of energy with the White Home and Senate. He mentioned Musk had been briefed on the deal.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions from reporters after presenting his final version of an interim pending bill to his caucus, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions from reporters after presenting his closing model of an interim pending invoice to his caucus, on the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photograph/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Many Republican lawmakers opposed the invoice as a result of it contains what they take into account to be pointless spending. However it was thought of more likely to move anyway with vast Democratic backing.

However Musk, and later Trump, blew up that plan with their eleventh hour assaults.

Republicans maintain a slim majority of a few seats within the Home, however are unable to move spending payments with out Democratic help as a result of some conservatives oppose all authorities funding measures with out main cuts that almost all others oppose.

Any spending invoice would additionally have to move the Senate, which remains to be held by Democrats, and win the help of President Biden to signal it into legislation.

The ugly inner GOP feud may additionally endanger Johnson’s maintain on the speaker’s gavel with a handful of right-wing lawmakers vowing to topple him within the subsequent Congress.

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