Facing government shutdown, Trump and Republican allies scuttle budget bill

Trump was one of several prominent Republicans in the incoming administration to denounce the bill on social media. But Trump has shown little aversion to political brinkmanship, and his opposition to the current stopgap bill — or “continuing resolution” — is poised to avoid another government shutdown early in his second term. “We don’t normally like what’s called a continuing resolution, or CR, but in this case, it makes sense, because if we push it into the first quarter of next year, then we have a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald J Trump back in the White House.” “We’ll be able to have more say over the funding decisions for 2025.” Already, Democrats have slammed the discord in the Republican Party as a herald of the disruptions to come under a second Trump administration. Representative Maxwell Frost of Florida pointed to Musk’s campaign to “kill the bill” as an example of big-money influence in Trump’s incoming government. “They’ve given him the influence to make a damn post that throws a spending bill into limbo cause House Republicans are scared of him,” Frost wrote.