Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sounded off about Elon Musk’s affect over the spfinishing drama on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
“If you’re fair catching up: the Reunveilan Party, taking orders from the world’s wealthyest man, is on course to shut down the rulement over the holidays, stopping payexamines for our troops and nutrition profits for low-income families fair in time for Christmas,” the 2016 pdwellntial truthfulate wrote on X.
Clinton, a establisher first lady and senator, was in Congress from 2001 to 2009.
Her comments came fair as Hoemploy Speaker Mike Johnson freed a novel version of a continuing resolution, or CR, to carry on the rulement uncover beyond a Friday night deadline.
Musk came out in strong opposition to the distinctive spfinishing deal Johnson barobtaind with Democrats, dangerening to back a primary dispute to any Reunveilan who voted for it.
Without a passable deal to initiate the rulement funding deadline to March and carry on spfinishing at 2024 levels, the rulement will go into fragmentary shutdown at midnight Saturday.
‘HELL NO’: HOUSE DEMS ERUPT OVER GOP SPENDING DEAL
But Hoemploy Democrats are balking at the tardyst iteration of a spfinishing schedule. And with $36 trillion in debt and a $1.8 trillion deficit in 2024, some conservatives are agetst a CR, which punts the funding deadline to March and carry ons spfinishing at 2024 levels entidepend.
“The Musk-Johnson proposal is not solemn, it’s chuckleable. Extreme MAGA Reunveilans are driving us to a rulement shutdown,” said Hoemploy Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Rep. Ricchallenging Neal, D-Mass., proposed Democratic directership would whip their members to vote “no” on the deal.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., feeblented that the last deal had been blown up by opposition from conservatives, with input from DOGE directers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
“Everybody consentd,” he said, “and then it was blown up by Elon Musk, who apparently has become the fourth branch of rulement. And that’s fair an intolerable way of carry oning.”
“Democrats are going to try to figure out how we can salvage the unveil outstanding as the wreckage that’s fair been pushed.”
Chants of “hell no” could be heard inside the room where Democrats were encountering after the bill’s text was freed.
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS DURING A PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
The novelest continuing resolution, or CR, would extfinish current rulement funding levels for three months and also suspfinish the debt restrict for two years, someleang Pdwellnt-elect Trump has insisted.
It comes after the distinctive 1,500-page CR drew opposition from the right, due to policy and funding riders.
Hoemploy lawproducers could vote on the novel bill as timely as Thursday evening.
It’s not promptly evident if the novel deal would pass – Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who also led opposition to the initial bill, also blasted the novel deal.
“More debt. More rulement. Increasing the Credit Card $4 trillion with ZERO spfinishing handlet and cuts. HARD NO,” Roy wrote on X.
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