As a government shutdown looms, Speaker Mike Johnson grapples with President-elect Donald Trump's sudden demand for a debt limit increase, putting Johnson's speakership and government funding at risk. Trump urges Republicans to prioritize the debt limit and threatens primaries for those who don't comply, echoing his past disruptions during the 2018 and 2020 holiday seasons.
By Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking, Associated PressSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, joined from left by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., talks at a news conference after presenting his final version of an interim spending bill to his caucus, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.
For Johnson, who faces his own problems ahead of a Jan. 3 House vote to remain speaker, Trump’s demands kept him working long into the night to broker a new deal. Vice President-elect JD Vance joined the late-night meetings at the Capitol, bringing his young son in pajamas.Trump’s allies even floated the far-fetched idea of giving billionaire Elon Musk the speaker’s gavel, since the speaker is not required to be a member of the Congress.
As senior Republicans broke from a Thursday morning meeting in the House speaker’s office there was no resolution yet.Federal funding is scheduled to expire at midnight Friday, a current temporary government funding bill running out as Congress was preparing a new one to keep things running for a few months.
Trump announced his own displeasure late Wednesday, and told Johnson to start over — with the new demand on the debt limit, something that generally takes months to negotiate and that his own party generally opposes. “Elon Musk and Donald Trump don’t have to worry about that. They’ll be dining on caviar at Mar-a-Lago,” McGovern said. “They live in an alternative universe, so none of this affects them. But if affects the people I represent. And I’m pissed we’re in this situation right now.”
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