The proposed spending package that would keep federal agencies funded through March 14 was killed on Wednesday after mostly Republican lawmakers rejected it for being so stuffed with nonsense.
Many say that Elon Musk had a hand in tanking it but his influence is certainly debatable. Senator Rand Paul says that Musk should be elected the House Speaker since there is no law that mandates the Speaker be a member of Congress.
Beyond Musk’s barage of X posts, several members of Congress were a hard no for many other valid reasons. Oddly few found spoke out against a provision to report on any company that tries to boycott Israel even though it is your constitutional right to boycott whoever the hell you want.
President-elect Trump also spoke out against it and demanded that Republicans put forth a “clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat ‘bells and whistles.'”
So what now? The debt ceiling will be reached on Saturday if nothing happens so House Republicans need to scramble together a new bill. Democrats say that they will oppose it if it scraps any of their “bipartisan” wishes but didn’t say exactly what those things were.
They knew this was looming for months. They deserve coal in their stockings.
