Trump-backed spending deal tanked after Musk wades in, with authorities shutdown imminent: Live

Donald Trump celebrated the deal just a few hours ago.

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JD Vance blasted Democrats after the House failed to avoid a government shutdown tonight, CNN reports.

“The Democrats just voted to shutdown the government even though we had a clean CR (continuing resolution), because they didn’t want to give the president negotiating leverage during his first term — the first year of his new term,” Vance said, according to CNN. “And number two because they would rather shut down the government and fight for global censorship b******t, they’ve asked for a shutdown and I think that’s exactly what they’re going to get.”

The network reported that Vance did not respond when asked about the 38 Republicans who also voted against the bill.

Minutes after Republicans’ plan to avert a shutdown and raise the debt ceiling failed in the House, congressional leaders regrouped to consider what to do next.

Rep. Steve Scalise, the House Republican leader, said they wouldn’t try to bring the bill back to the floor.

Meanwhile Rep. Chip Roy, who spearheaded Republican opposition to the bill, was defiant outside the chamber. “I’m ambitious to make sure that we actually cut spending. I’m ambitious to do what we said we would do,” he told reporters.

On the opposite side of the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said: “It’s a good thing the bill failed in the House, now it’s time to go back to the bipartisan agreement we came to.”

Elon Musk has reacted to the failed House vote tonight, blasting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

News of a newly hashed-out deal arrived one day after the world’s wealthiest person and the incoming president commanded members of Congress to reject a bipartisan stop-gap funding bill as lawmakers prepared to vote.

“It’s not serious, it’s laughable. Extreme MAGA Republicans are steering us towards a government shutdown,” Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Thursday of the Trump-backed deal.

“It’s an absolute slap in the face,” Democratic congresswoman Jill Tokuda told The Independent. “It’s disgusting that they would try to use this as a tool to increase the debt limit for two years, which we know will ultimately result in tax credits for the uber wealthy on the backs of our working people.”

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The House rejected Trump’s new plan to fund federal operations and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown.

Democrats refused to accommodate his sudden demands and the quick fix cobbled together by Republican leaders.

In a hastily convened evening vote punctuated by angry outbursts over the self-made crisis, the lawmakers failed to reach the two-thirds threshold needed for passage — but House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared determined to try again before Friday’s midnight deadline.

“We’re going to do the right thing here,” Johnson said ahead of the vote. But he didn’t even get a majority, with the bill failing 174-235.

The outcome proved a massive setback for Trump and his billionaire ally, Elon Musk, who rampaged against Johnson’s bipartisan compromise, which Republicans and Democrats had reached earlier to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown.

A Donald Trump-backed spending bill has failed in the House vote tonight, which leaves Congress with no clear plan to avert a government shutdown that could bring chaos before Christmas.

By a vote of 174-235, the House rejected the spending package, which was hastily assembled by Republican leaders after Trump and billionaire Elon Musk scuttled a prior bipartisan deal, Reuters reports.

Government funding is due to expire at midnight on Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump’s co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita and chief pollster Tony Fabrizio sat for an interview with Politico and revealed what they believed helped Trump secure victory in the 2024 election.

Fabrizo said Trump was unhappy with some of the speakers at his Madison Square Garden rally — a rally during which a right-wing podcaster called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage and made other disparaging remarks about latinos and Jewish people — but that Joe Biden insulting Trump supporters after the event “saved” the campaign from an extended negative news cycle.

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been,” Biden said after the rally.

Elsewhere in the interview, LaCivita said he does not believe that the impact of the visual of Trump after the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt has been fully appreciated.

He said the visual of Trump, bleeding, with his fist in the air after the shooting conveyed that “Americans get knocked down, but they always fight back.”

“And that visual is as quintessential America as the f****** flag is,” he said.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blamed ‘puppet president’ Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump for breaking down a bipartisan agreement on a spending bill that would have funded the government through March.

“Elon Musk ordered his puppet President-elect and House Republicans to break the bipartisan agreement reached to keep government open,” she wrote in a post on X. “House Republicans are abdicating their responsibility to the American people and siding with billionaires and special interests.”

Kentucky is under no legal requirement to use taxpayer money to cover the costs of gender-affirming surgeries for people incarcerated in state prisons, Attorney General Russell Coleman said Thursday.

The state’s corrections department requested the opinion from the state’s Republican attorney general as the agency amends its administrative regulations regarding medical care for people in prison.

Coleman was asked whether the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment means the department is required to pay for gender-affirming surgeries for transgender people in prison when the procedure is deemed “medical necessary” by medical professionals.

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