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President-elect Trump and Elon Musk, incoming head of the Department of Government Efficiency, have torpedoed a bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown, throwing Congress into chaos.
U.S. senators were stunned when President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk threw a wrench into a bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown. Trump's directive to tank the spending plan threw Congress into chaos as lawmakers must now go back to the drawing board. They have until Friday — just days before Christmas — to pass the continuing resolution, or the government will shut down.
Republican Senator Susan Collins, who represents Maine told HuffPost's Igor Bobic,'This has come as a surprise to me.Democratic Vermont Senator Peter Welch described the developments as 'a bolt of lightning coming out of the sky.' Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH,' Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said in a statement opposing the deal on Wednesday evening. They called to increase the debt ceiling, saying that while it's 'not great,' they would rather see it happen 'on Biden's watch,' referring to outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden.The statement came after Musk, who will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) starting next year, came out in sharp opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson's government funding bill.'Shutting down' the government (which doesn't actually shut down critical functions btw) is infinitely better than passing a horrible bill,' Musk wrote in one post on X, formerly known as Twitter.Welch alluded to Musk's involvement in tanking the deal, saying, 'To have it overturned because of the lobbying of one person is a real statement of the weakness of what's going on in the House .'A number of House Republicans have publicly opposed Johnson's spending deal in recent days. In light of that, the House speaker is reportedly weighing cutting $100 billion in disaster relief funds from the package. That rankled a number of Republican lawmaker
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