President-Elect Trump's last-minute demands for raising the national debt limit alongside a temporary government funding bill have thrown Congress into chaos. The controversial proposal has triggered a revolt within the Republican party, threatening to shut down the government before the Christmas holidays.
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.The president-elect made an almost unrealistic proposal that combined the same 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. ‘House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government,’ said House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. ‘And hurt the working class Americans they claim to support. You break the bipartisan agreement, you own the consequences that follow.’Already, the massive 1,500-page bill was on the verge of collapse, as hard right conservatives rejected the increased spending, egged on by Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk who rejected the plan almost as soon as it was released late Tuesday night. Rank-and-file lawmakers complained about the extra spending — which includes their first pay-raises in more than a decade — a shock after one of the most unproductive chaotic session in modern times. A number of Republicans were waiting for Trump to signal whether they should vote yes or no.Even the addition of much-needed disaster aid, some $100.4 billion in the aftermath of hurricanes and other natural calamities that ravaged states this year, plus $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers failed to win over the budget-slashing GOP.“This should not pass,” Musk posted on his social media site X in the wee hours of Wednesday mornin
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