Trump, Musk blame Democrats for tanking spending bill as shutdown looms: Live

Certainly nothing this ridiculous might really occur – or might it?

Right here’s extra from Josh Marcus.

The president-elect (to date) isn’t becoming a member of calls from some in his get together to interchange Speaker Johnson firstly of the subsequent Congress, though issues are movingly shortly and final night time is not going to have helped the Louisana Republican’s trigger.

Johnson received the gavel final October after a protracted battle following the ouster of former speaker Kevin McCarthy – an occasion touched off by McCarthy’s choice to permit a vote to fund the federal government on a bipartisan foundation quite than forcing a shutdown till passage of a party-line invoice extra acceptable to hardline conservatives.

Right here’s extra from Andrew Feinberg on Trump’s present help for Johnson, which can properly not final.

The president-elect issued that menace in opposition to the deeply conservative Texas GOP congressman yesterday, calling him a “Republican obstructionist” searching for solely “low-cost publicity for himself”:

Unbowed, Roy responed on social media after which castigated his “asinine” get together on the Home flooring for missing “an oz. of self-respect” as he voted down the invoice:

The opposition must keep away from gloating right here as the implications of a federal shutdown are not any laughing matter for the American folks however the present chaos can also be an unmissable alternative to attract consideration to Republican dysfunction.

“Put in your huge boy pants,” Florida Consultant Jared Moskowitz instructed the GOP within the Home yesterday, simply days after he was reported to be Trump’s option to run FEMA (and politely declined).

“Go your individual invoice. We’re solely right here since you guys can’t agree amongst yourselves.”

Talking within the aftermath of yesterday’s catastrophe, Moskowitz’s Texas colleague Jasmine Crockett instructed MSNBC: “I’m simply gonna sit again. We’re taking a look at this like, that is their downside.”

She continued: “Now we have seen this play out time and again in all the two years that I’ve been in Congress.

“However right here’s the deal: There isn’t a fixing this with out the Democrats.

“Now we have seen this time and again, and I’m simply gonna sit again and sip my tea and wait on them to determine it out.”

California Democratic Consultant Barbara Lee warned on CNN final night time that permitting Elon Musk to “run our authorities actually has grave penalties on the American folks”.

Feedback like that over the past 24 hours have compelled Trump’s tranisition staff to insist that it’s the president-elect who is de facto answerable for their incoming administration, not Musk, a humiliating enterprise for all involved and really a lot not a superb search for the administration precisely one month earlier than it takes workplace.

Right here’s extra from Rhian Lubin.

An settlement was struck. Washington was prepared to depart for the vacations having come collectively on a plan to fund the federal government and avert a shutdown – albeit with some grumbling on the MAGA proper.

However then Elon Musk jumped in.

Right here’s John Bowden and Andrew Feinberg on one other fantastic mess the unelected billionaire has gotten the GOP into.

These are the newest Fact Social posts from the president-elect, which discover him not addressing his defeat immediately however digging in his heels nonetheless – and likewise ramping up his tariff threats in opposition to America’s pals and neighbours, maybe hoping to fund the federal authorities that manner.

All of which is a good distance from yesterday’s triumphalism earlier than the vote, which prematurely hailed: “SUCCESS in Washington!”

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have lashed out after Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s Plan B congressional spending invoice, drafted at their insistence to incorporate a suspension of the debt restrict and take away a lot of concessions to Democrats, was comprehensively defeated within the Home of Representatives final night time by 235 votes in opposition to to 174 for.

The result’s a serious embarrassment for the GOP and the incoming president that leaves the US authorities as soon as extra hurtling in the direction of a shutdown except an alternate might be agreed by midnight tonight.

That is what the president-elect needed to say in a press release in response:

“Almost each single Home Democrat simply voted in opposition to authorities funding and to close down the federal government.

“These 197 Democrats voted in opposition to preserving the federal government open, catastrophe reduction, and support for farmers.

“As Vice President-elect JD Vance stated, Democrats ‘requested for a shutdown and I feel that’s precisely what they’re going to get.’”

Elon, the good disrupter, lashed out on X alongside comparable traces:

None of that’s true, nevertheless, as Trump and Musk’s bullying techniques additionally did not persuade no fewer than 38 Republicans.

This was the speedy response from Johnson and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries:

Right here’s a full report from Alex Woodward and Eric Garcia.