https://apnews.com/article/governmen...x-newtab-en-us
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days before a deadline when federal funding runs out.
Trump’s sudden entrance into the debate and new demands sent Congress spiraling as lawmakers are trying to wrap up work and head home for the holidays. It leaves Johnson scrambling to engineer a new plan before Friday’s deadline to keep government open.
“Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH,” Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance said in a statement.
The president-elect made an almost unrealistic proposal that combined the some continuation of government funds along with a much more controversial provision to raise the nation’s debt limit — something his own party routinely rejects. “Anything else is a betrayal of our country,” they wrote.
Democrats decried the GOP revolt over the stopgap measure, which would have also provided some $100 billion in disaster aid to states hammered by Hurricanes Helene and Milton and other natural disasters.
So excited for 4 more years of this shit
Trump floated the idea this morning, via Truth, that the US could annex Canada and make it the 51st state.
He's been calling it a state and Trudeau Governor for a bit now
yeah but they can’t tell the republicans currently in congress that are terrified of team trump to fuck off
“This should not pass,” Musk posted on his social media site X in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
One lawmaker said office phone lines were flooded with calls from constituents
“My phone was ringing off the hook,” said Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky. “The people who elected us are listening to Elon Musk.”
Musk, who is heading Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, warned that “Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!”
Every elected official is terrified of him and has been for years, hardly a GOP exclusive issue. See: Garland, Merchan, Wray, etc, etc.
It's a long, long list.
Turns out when people call you up and threaten to murder your family, country over party goes out the window. Shocking huh?
Musk has pretty much threatened to fund primaries against anyone who goes against lord Trumps wishes.
We'll only let the skinny people in, already enough fatties here. Also anyone smart enough to go around.
Everyone knows a Mexican can only move forward into the US. They don't have any strafe buttons
Oh come on. Those bottles still have booze in them. Would a guy with a problem have undrunk liquor, I think not.
All the alcoholics I know have empty trophy bottles.
In the second picture most of the bottles still have liquor in them.
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https://x.com/klarajk/status/1870907508895711414
Something something tax evasion