The looming government funding deadline sparks political turmoil as former President Trump demands Kevin McCarthy increase the debt limit as a condition for remaining House Speaker. This last-minute request, coupled with Trump's past history of holiday-season government shutdowns, puts McCarthy in a bind. The situation has led to late-night meetings at the Capitol, with even Elon Musk being considered as a potential replacement Speaker.
The turn of events, coming days before Friday's midnight deadline to fund the government, sparks a familiar reminder of what it's like in Trump -run Washingtonsudden demands — and keep his own job — while federal offices are being told to prepare to shutter operations ahead of Friday's midnight deadline.
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. “This reckless Republican driven shutdown can be avoided,” Jeffries said. Republicans should “simply do what is right for the American people and stick with the bipartisan agreement that they themselves negotiated.”
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget had provided initial communication to agencies about lapse planning last week, according to an official at the agency.
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