The house runs the government?
Actually, he's been a US citizen since 2002. And from between now and noon today, he'll make more than you probably have in your name.
Oh he’s for sure helping himself but I agree this country is headed for a massive financial collapse and it is probably going to be the only real way we see change…and I recognize Trump will be the one to take us there….so let’s rip the band aid off, burn it down and let people see what they vote for.
I'm not claiming she did not lose.
They're just doing what they're told, they really don't know (or care) about the facts. If the last 8 years has taught us anything it's this.
Well if some random on pedophile network blue sky said it then it must be true.
100 votes were cast total.
And that makes him qualified, NOT . Don't know of anyone that voted for this prick.
Dude. Give it up. You are wrong.
If you think we're 36 trillion in debt bc of a revenue problem you should forfeit your right to vote. Excusing the people who approved the spending is not just stupid it's irresponsible.
Today’s edition walks you through Congress’s preview of the coming dysfunction and backstabbing in the Trump-Musk era. Trump and his allies will see some normal lawmaking happening and decide to upend it without any advanced warning or regard for the average American citizens for whom it will cause pain. As a result, the government is—once again—headed for a shutdown right at Christmas. We’ll walk though how this situation came about and why the second Trump president is likely to be much worse than the first, which had multiple shutdowns of its own. In addition, I listened in on a key discussion in the Capitol about the effects of Trump’s proposed tariff policies. You might want to buy that new washing machine sooner rather than later, is all I’m saying. Lastly, I found the weirdest side hustle of the Christmas season: hiring yourself out to impersonate Jesus for families paying for holiday photos. All that and more, below. They Like The Chaos. They Want The Chaos. This week gave us a preview of the coming Trump presidency. It felt like a horrible rerun of the first.
In the past 24 hours, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and many familiar characters from the 118th Congress effectively killed a continuing resolution that was needed to keep the government’s lights on for another three months. As a result, the government’s Friday funding deadline could very likely result in Trump’s second presidency opening with a government shutdown. The entire ordeal serves as a preview of what Americans should expect from their government for at least the next two years: A pathetic and ineffective legislature will limp along, waiting every moment for its next command from the president and his rich friends. None of this should be shocking to anyone who reads this newsletter. The 118th Congress was chaotic enough thanks to infighting within the Republican House majority, but that dysfunction hardly registers in comparison with how things went during the first Trump presidency. Chaos was visited on anything unfortunate enough to elicit the interest of the administration. There were sudden changes, ego-driven showdowns, and more backstabbing than you’d see in a Real Housewives episode. There were also multiple government shutdowns, including the longest one in U.S. history. And now, the decision by a re-empowered Trump to appoint Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to be his terminally online enforcers adds a completely new vector of chaos. Also, Vice President-elect JD Vance is there, too. Somewhere. Back to the CR imbroglio. Wednesday started with typical Republican grumbling about the bill’s delayed introduction and how it is too many pages to read (at 1,500 pages, that’s slightly longer than the Lord of the Rings). But that grumbling started to turn into something more when Musk started posting on X about the bill. And he posted a lot. Just yesterday, the world’s richest and apparently least-busy man posted or reposted more than 100 times, mostly about the CR. Musk’s posting got him into a state of agitation, and he ended up demanding that any Republican who votes for the CR be punished when they seek re-election in two years. At the same time, his new fake government agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), was posting false information about the bill, including the claim that it included money for a football stadium in D.C. (In reality, it just transferred control of the land under Washington’s RFK stadium from the federal government back to the city so they could—maybe—build a new stadium on their own.) All this posting didn’t move the needle enough to tank the bill outright, but it made Republicans nervous. After all, many GOP lawmakers refuse to take a position on anything deemed sensitive or controversial until they have heard from Trump himself. By late in the afternoon, word came down: Trump had confirmed his opposition to the CR in a conversation with his
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| Having received their marching orders, the Republican rank-and-file began to move in lockstep, preparing a fusillade of posts targeting the CR, agreeing with Trump, and proclaiming their commitment to fiscal responsibility. Because Trump needed to make his own words the topline, he restated Musk’s recommendation in a post on Truth Social calling for any and all Republicans who back a “clean” CR to be primaried.¹ This ugly reboot of Trump 1.0, with much of the same original cast, will have two immediate ramifications. First, a government shutdown, which increasingly seems unavoidable, would prevent many Americans from getting a paycheck until it’s resolved, leading to financial uncertainty right at Christmas;² money also wouldn’t arrive for victims in need of additional disaster relief after a particularly rough hurricane season. Second, House Speaker Mike Johnson’s bad strategic miscalculation on the CR could put his gavel at serious risk when it comes time to elect the chamber’s leader on January 3. Already, Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.)—one of Johnson’s top deputies who previously vied for the job during the War of the Five Speakers—offered a dry “we will see what transpires” when asked if his support for Johnson remains firm. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is floating Musk for speaker, and other lawmakers appear to be intrigued by the idea.³ Trump also offered a veiled threat to Johnson Thursday morning, telling Fox: The word “If” is hanging out there, ominously. As the 47 train gains steam, you should expect a lot more of this sort of thing. If by some miracle, a different three-month CR or funding patch makes it through this time around, we’ll all have to watch the same fight play out again in March, halfway through the fiscal year. And if that goes well, the next fiscal year will likely feature similar tantrums. |
Got it. We haven’t spent enough yet on this and the gov’t will spend it better than private research.
I mean, maybe not. Watching the Republican party eat each other alive might be kinda fun for them.
LOL's. We're gonna be laughing our asses off at you nuts as you destroy everything.
