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Trump Criticizes Spending Deal, Pushing Congress Toward a Shutdown
The New York Times ^ | Dec. 18, 2024 | Catie Edmondson, Carl Hulse

Posted on 12/18/2024 9:51:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

A bipartisan spending deal to avert a shutdown was on life support on Wednesday after President-elect Donald J. Trump condemned it, leaving lawmakers without a strategy to fund the government past a Friday night deadline.

Mr. Trump issued a scathing statement ordering Republicans not to support the sprawling bill, piling on to a barrage of criticism from Elon Musk, who spent Wednesday trashing the measure on social media and threatening any Republican who supported it with political ruin.

It was not yet clear how Speaker Mike Johnson planned to proceed as the package, which was stuffed full of unrelated policy measures as well as tens of billions of dollars in disaster and agricultural aid, appeared to be hemorrhaging support. Some Republicans suggested he was mulling stripping the bill of everything but the spending extension and putting it to a vote, but the fate of such a measure was also very much in doubt.

The blowback from Republicans to the agreement underscored the complications top G.O.P. leaders will have to manage next year when they control all of Congress and face a president with a penchant for blowing up political compromises. It also showed the power of a circle of influential outside players in Mr. Trump’s orbit who appeared willing to punish Republicans if they failed to accede to his wishes.

Even before Mr. Musk began making noise, a swell of Republican lawmakers — both ultraconservatives and some mainstream members — had been furious about the funding measure, which was rolled out on Tuesday night. It began as a simple spending bill to keep government funds flowing past a midnight deadline and into mid-March, but it emerged from bipartisan negotiations laden with $100 billion in disaster aid and dozens of other unrelated policies.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: govtfunded; spendaholicsunite; spendingdeal; trump
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1 posted on 12/18/2024 9:51:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The devil’s own point that accusing finger.. shutdown is on Trump! Now who is it that owns the New York Times?


2 posted on 12/18/2024 9:54:57 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

YES...willing to punish FAKE Republicans...


3 posted on 12/18/2024 9:58:22 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

tach it up, tach it up
Buddy gonna shut you down


4 posted on 12/18/2024 10:05:18 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why does this CR redefine: murderers, rapists, child rapists, kidnappers, terrorists, cartel members, drug dealers, sex traffickers, drug traffickers, human traffickers, domestic abusers, child pornographers, arsonists, serial killers, and cannibals among other things... as “justice involved individuals?”

These are criminals, as in “criminal offenders,” and should be labeled as such! Page 1400.

https://x.com/RepNancyMace/status/1869504406841950210?t=0ylAENYSoww2Ru1J_atzvQ&s=19

5 posted on 12/18/2024 10:06:08 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why are they spending billions of dollars to build a sports stadium for a football team from Maryland in the CR?
And a massive 40% pay increase for the overpaid congressmen. This CR had to die. And Johnson has to go.
6 posted on 12/18/2024 10:09:57 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Just mythoughts

Who is responsible for the shutdown?


7 posted on 12/18/2024 10:09:59 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Just mythoughts

Trump’s so used to taking the heat that his hair’s turned orange. Trump vs the Dirty Lying Cowards, the next UFC smackdown. No wonder them dem’s like the Backshooting Luigi . I mean Jesse James was a wanted outlaw when Tom Ford, forever called the Dirty Coward for shooting Jesse James from behind, was immortalized as such in the press. Trump Needs a sweep in 2026 to get the Rinocrats out.


8 posted on 12/18/2024 10:11:16 PM PST by Waverunner
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To: napscoordinator

Is there a shutdown?


9 posted on 12/18/2024 10:14:28 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Waverunner

Exactly.


10 posted on 12/18/2024 10:15:59 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SmokingJoe

Current pay==$174,000 plus LOTS of perks & benefits & Paid staff.

40% more===$243,600.

The 2.5% COL for SOCIAL SECURITY recipients is an insult-—while they want 40%.

The 2.5% on MY SS==1/2 tank of gas for my car. $37.


11 posted on 12/18/2024 10:21:27 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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cool, let’s see how it survives or dies


12 posted on 12/18/2024 10:32:17 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: Just mythoughts

“which was stuffed full of unrelated policy measures”.
All of which simply need to be removed before a vote is taken.


13 posted on 12/18/2024 10:34:35 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Slime adjectives ✖️


14 posted on 12/18/2024 10:39:38 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: napscoordinator

DJT.


15 posted on 12/18/2024 10:42:01 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: napscoordinator

The DNC is done.

Start over and tell us all the good stuff about AOC.


16 posted on 12/18/2024 10:47:50 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE.

Time to squash the drama like a bug.


17 posted on 12/18/2024 10:48:21 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Once again Trump is RIGHT!

LSM deeply saddened.


18 posted on 12/18/2024 10:55:13 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

La. Johnson is retarded.

We need a CR to get to Jan 27, 2025.

No 1500 pages of gov;t BS/overreach.


19 posted on 12/18/2024 10:59:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Dan Crenshaw is apparently drunk posting this evening. (I edited a couple of words to replace the letters with *****). GOP representatives aren’t liking the pressure from the voters.


Dan Crenshaw
@DanCrenshawTX
Anonymous coward like “catturd” talking sh** without any evidence. I’m used to it. Sorry I was guy fighting the wars that little bit*** like you would never dare to. One of us has actually served this country and continues to, while losers like you make money being trolls on social media. I live in Atascocita, just outside Houston. If you think I’m “rich,” you’re a f*****g idiot. The people getting rich off politics are the “influencers” like Catturd selling their platforms to the highest bidder. Sorry to break to it yall, that’s the truth.
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20 posted on 12/18/2024 11:03:59 PM PST by CFW
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