After Republicans tried responsible everybody else for the disaster they created, it appears like Home Speaker Mike Johnson was lastly in a position to cross a spending invoice Friday night time to maintain the federal government open by means of the top of the 12 months and into the subsequent administration.
Johnson emerged from the Home flooring to cheerlead and attempt to erase all recollections of the GOP’s disastrous dealing with of the invoice—and the way shadow President Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump sabotaged an earlier model of it. When requested if he spoke to Musk or Trump in regards to the ultimate invoice, Johnson’s response was fascinating:
I used to be in fixed contact with, with President Trump, all through this course of. Spoke with him most just lately about 45 minutes in the past. He knew precisely what we had been doing and why. And, and this can be a good consequence for the nation. I feel he definitely is joyful about this consequence as effectively. Elon Musk and I talked inside about an hour in the past.
That certain makes it sound like Musk received to okay the deal earlier than Trump did. This, after all, would contradict the Trump’s workforce’s insistence that Donald is completely in cost—and the world’s precise richest man will not be the one who’s calling the pictures.
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