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Trump and Vance Oppose Government Funding Bill

President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance urged Republicans to reject a government funding bill negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson. Instead, they’re calling for a clean stopgap funding measure. The Hill reports that their statement criticized the bill’s additional provisions as “Democrat giveaways” and a betrayal of Republican values. Trump and Vance argued that a streamlined funding bill would better serve farmers, disaster relief, and the nation’s future.

Elon Musk has also been urging people to call their representatives. Kentucky Congressman Andy Barr said:

The phone was ringing off the hook today. And you know why? Because they were reading the tweets, the X from musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and they were telling me that they were, that they were listening to them.. this shows the influence that president, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have in this process before they're even in office. The American people elected Donald Trump, and the American people want us to pay attention to that election and that election results, and so we've got to work. This is an important lesson for the the new unified Republican majority, that we have to work. I do think the path forward is a skinny CR where you just take the 100 pages that the Appropriations Committee produced and everything else falls out.

The government faces a shutdown unless Congress passes a funding measure by Saturday. As you can imagine, this isn’t much of a threat to Americans who are overwhelmingly excited about Trump, Vance, and the DOGE squad. Trump’s proposal drew support from allies like Musk, who called for consequences for lawmakers supporting the bill, such as primarying them.

The New York Times reported, “The deal congressional leaders struck and unveiled yesterday seems all but dead after wide swaths of the House G.O.P. conference, Elon Musk and President-elect Trump all panned it. Democrats, who still control the Senate and White House, are saying they’re in no mood to negotiate a second deal.”

If Trump, Vance, and their millions of voters are successful in stopping the bill, get ready for Grinch headlines for Christmas!

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