Musk (left) shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump backstage at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show on October 5, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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President-elect Donald Trump Stand aside against Republican-backed government spending bill on Wednesday MuskOpposition to the plan raises the possibility of a government shutdown.
Trump opposes the resolution that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson continues to introduce, according to a source familiar with the president-elect’s thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
Sources confirmed that Trump tell the fox news host He is “totally opposed” to CR.
Late Wednesday afternoon, the vice president-elect and senator-elect. JD VanceThe Ohio Republican released a joint statement from him and Trump, declaring that politicians should “pass a stripped-down bill” that wouldn’t give Democrats “everything they want.”
“Republicans want to support our farmers, fund disaster relief, and position our country for success in 2025. The only way to do that is to pass a stopgap appropriations bill without Democratic giveaways while raising the debt limit,” the the report reads.
“Any other action would be a betrayal of our country,” their statement read.
Their opposition added significant pressure to Musk’s ongoing efforts throughout the day to shelve the 1,547-page bill, which he said is filled with wasteful dividend spending.
If legislation to fund the government is not passed by the House and Senate and signed by the president late Friday, the federal government will begin a partial shutdown that could include furloughing employees.
Musk seemed unfazed by the prospect of a government shutdown the week before Christmas.
“It would be far better to ‘shut down’ the government (which, by the way, doesn’t actually shut down critical functions) than pass a terrible bill,” Musk wrote in one of dozens of reports. X posts Against CR.
in another articleMusk claimed that Congress “should not pass any legislation” before Trump takes office on January 20.
A growing number of Republican lawmakers are siding with Musk, which could force Louisiana Republican Johnson to pass the resolution by “suspending” traditional House rules procedures.
Passing a bill under moratorium requires the bill to win the support of two-thirds of the House but bypasses other procedural steps.
Democrats need to join Republicans in passing the suspended bill, and as of Wednesday morning, passing the CR appeared to be the most likely way to fund the government.
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