Associated Press
With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.
The bill passed on a 366-34 vote.
The House approved the three-month government funding bill and sent it to the Senate with just hours left before a shutdown deadline.
Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk played a key role this week in killing a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, railing against the plan in more than 100 X posts that included multiple false claims.
Not only did the owner of the social platform X, an unelected figure, use his outsize influence on the platform to help sway Congress, he did so without regard for the facts and gave a preview of the role he could play over the next four years.
“Trump has got himself a handful with Musk,” said John Mark Hansen, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. “Trump’s done this kind of thing before, blowing up a bill at the last minute. This time, though, it looks like he was afraid of Musk upstaging him. Now there’s a new social media bully in town, pushing the champion social media bully around.”
Johnson set a vote for Friday evening on the plan to temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but punted on Trump demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.
Johnson declined to disclose the new idea under consideration, but lawmakers said it would fund the government at current levels through March and adds $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in agricultural assistance to farmers.
The vote comes ahead of a potential government shutdown at midnight.
11 comments
Red Storm
December 20, 2024 at 7:11 pm
Anyone seen Joe? For four years now, who is the person calling the shots behind the curtain? The media still saying Joe is focused, sharp, engaged, energetic, etc. etc?
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Meaty Urologist
December 21, 2024 at 5:36 am
“. . .focused, sharp, engaged. . . ”
Alive? Can’t prove it by me.
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Ocean Joe
December 20, 2024 at 7:46 pm
Trump’s two fanboys above avoid the subject.
Just like he blew up a border bill, Trump (now Musk) derailed a budget bill, made primary threats against longtime supporters, and demanded the debt ceiling be raised so he could blame it on Biden AND jumpstart trickle down voodoo economics by renewing the 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy while ignoring the massive debt it brings.
You’d think DOGE would recognize that those tax cuts mean a loss of revenue, and are for purposes of the budget, the equivalent of massive spending. Like last time, complain about the Dems spending and then triple it.
Red Storm
December 20, 2024 at 9:14 pm
Yet no comment on where your boy Joe Biden is or has been for the last four years. I’m happy to see someone shaking up things in DC. Those shoe clerk politicians need that.
JD
December 20, 2024 at 9:53 pm
So enlighten us with one Federal bill the GOP has passed that helped the American people that the Democrats didn’t save their ass since 2016 under the guise of bipartisan support only to have the Republicans come in and f@ck the Democrats without so much as a kiss?
You and Earl are the same person, so it doesn’t matter. I think you still work for Pushaw.
Red Storm
December 21, 2024 at 5:30 am
Ha Ha! JD. If I work for Pushaw then you obviously work for Nikki Fried. Tell her thanks by the way for being the number one recruiter for the Republican Party of Florida.
JD
December 21, 2024 at 7:42 am
So all you got is deflection. You can’t name a bill the Republican’s passed to help the American people withouth the help of the Democrats. Why? Because it doesn’t exist.
I don’t know why you keep shilling the GOP garbage like some Pushsaw paid trash opposum, but this latest run from President Elect Musk show’s he’s a rube and Trump’s his patsy.
FAFO
tom palmer
December 20, 2024 at 8:26 pm
Biden did not have a part in a GOP food fight. This was like Pottery Barn; you break it, you bought it. Be interesting to see if the actual Trump term will be s this chaotic..
ScienceBLVR
December 21, 2024 at 7:56 am
Thanks again to the DEMs for saving the American dream. Unfortunately, just like Dangerfield, they get no love or respect for what they do, just lies and hyperbole from the right.
“ I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician, I would be honest”
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