Last minute deal... the House passes a spending bill @ 5:40 Friday. The bill now goes to the Senate.
I wrote this Friday afternoon and by Saturday morning everything changed... but Trump & Musk team didn't get their way. Drama! We are going to have this type of drama for the next four years! Our hope lies in the midterm election and hope that enough people will say... "F**k this s**t!"
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The bipartisan budget was with support from both sides of the aisle but then Musk whispered in Trump's ear... "Stop It!" and Trump bowed down and said "Your wish is my command!"
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.NBC NewsBy Matt DixonDecember 19, 2023It was government shutdown season in Washington, and all through the House, many
creatures were stirring — most notably Elon Musk.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.But then they got a taste of what the next four years might be like with Donald Trump back in the White House and Musk, the world’s richest man, wielding enormous power over the political process.
They don't care that it is only days before Christmas!
What Musk wants, Musk gets... that is what $250 millions buys you.
Musk began posting on X against a stopgap government spending bill on Wednesday well before Trump weighed in against the legislation.USA TodayBy Zac Anderson and Josh MeyerDecember 19, 2024Hours before Donald Trump blew up a bipartisan stopgap funding deal, putting the federal government in danger of a Christmas holiday shutdown, an influential member of his inner circle already was working hard to sink the bill.Elon Musk took to X – a social media platform he owns – to slam the spending measure, repeatedly writing that lawmakers should “kill the bill” in a tsunami of more than 100 posts on Wednesday that swamped the carefully negotiated funding measure.When Trump finally weighed in, 14 hours after Musk first attacked the bill, it looked like he was following the tech impresario's lead. Political observers took notice, questioning who was setting the Republican agenda, Trump or Musk?
Rockefeller circa 1890s “President-elect Musk is really setting down the marker of how he wants to run his administration. VP Trump better pay attention,” former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger taunted Trump on X.
$250 million speaks loudly!
Elon has the Donald firmly under his thumb.
8:00PM Friday.
The New York Times writes that,
Something unusual happened this week after President-elect Donald J. Trump ordered House Republicans to back legislation raising the debt limit: Dozens refused.It was a rare breach by a group of Republicans who have traditionally backed Mr. Trump’s policy preferences unquestioningly and taken pains to avoid defying him.And it laid bare a disconnect between Mr. Trump and his party that could upend their efforts next year to pass transformative tax and domestic policy legislation with the tiniest of majorities. Even as Mr. Trump has displayed a laissez-faire attitude to the federal debt and a willingness to spend freely, a number of lawmakers in his party fervently adhere to an anti-spending philosophy that regards debt as disastrous.[...]Balancing it all, Representative Jodey C. Arrington of Texas, the chairman of the Budget Committee, conceded on Friday, is only going to get more difficult when the Republican majority shrinks even further next year.
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