Republicans can not determine who responsible for the federal government shutdown they could quickly trigger.
The Democratic-controlled Senate and the GOP-run Home had a deal to fund the federal government for the subsequent three months. The spending invoice included catastrophe reduction and farm help, and allotted funding to issues like childhood most cancers analysis, 9/11 first responders, and cash for early detection for cervical and breast most cancers, amongst different issues.
However simply because the invoice was set to return up for a vote within the Home, Co-President-elect Elon Musk jettisoned the laws with lies about what the invoice does and threats to spend cash in primaries towards Republicans who voted for it.
Trump, seeing that Musk is now in charge of the Republican Occasion, obtained mad and took credit score for blowing up the deal himself, claiming he gave Musk permission to trash the funding settlement on X, which led to its demise.
However when it grew to become clear that the media and anybody with eyeballs and a mind know that it will likely be Republicans’ fault if the federal government shuts down—thereby possible forcing army members and different important personnel to go unpaid over Christmas—Republicans are actually pointing fingers in all instructions and making an attempt to shirk duty for the colossal mess they might quickly create.
On Friday morning, hours earlier than the potential shutdown, Trump mentioned it will be President Joe Biden’s fault—regardless that it’s Trump who helped blow up the deal.
“If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP,’ Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!”
His remark is akin to an arsonist standing in entrance of a burning constructing with a field of matches in hand whereas pointing at a bystander and blaming them for the blaze.
Equally, Musk, who began this complete idiotic brouhaha, is blaming Democratic Home chief Hakeem Jeffries, regardless that Jeffries had made a deal and it was Republicans who reneged on the eleventh hour.
“Objectively, the vast majority of Republican House members voted for the spending bill, but only 2 Democrats did,” Musk wrote on X, referring to the plan-B invoice that Home Speaker Mike Johnson put up for a vote however that failed as a result of 38 Republicans voted towards it. “Therefore, if the government shuts down, it is obviously the fault of [Jeffries] and the Democratic Party. Plain & simple.”
Vice President-elect JD Vance additionally made a ridiculous touch upon Thursday, telling reporters on Capitol Hill that Democrats “asked for a shutdown and I think that’s exactly what they’re going to get”—regardless that, once more, Democrats had a deal to fund the federal government and Republicans blew it up.
In the meantime, “Fox & Friends” host Lawrence B. Jones claimed Friday that it’s Democrats who have to “pick a talking point.”
Extra absurd is that Senate Republicans are actually blaming their counterparts within the Home who’re vowing to jot down a funding invoice with out negotiating with Democrats—whom they want for the invoice to cross.
“When it gets [to the Senate], you need 60 of us,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina mentioned, referring to the truth that Senate laws wants 60 votes to keep away from a filibuster. “So the idea that you can write a bill that doesn’t have to get some bipartisan support ignores the situation on the ground. We have to have Democrats and Republicans at the 60 level to get anything through the Senate.”
Fortunately, the media doesn’t seem like falling for the Trump-Musk spin.
“The world’s richest man [is] right now holding the country hostage,” CNN’s Erin Burnett mentioned Thursday night time on her present. “It’s all him calling the shots, it seems.”
Mainly, the Republican Occasion is at the moment the residing embodiment of the Spider-Man meme.
If the shutdown certainly occurs, it gained’t be the primary time Trump has began one. The federal government shut down twice throughout his first time period in workplace, together with for 35 days—the longest shutdown on file—in December 2018.
Whether or not or not the federal government shuts down this time, it’s not a promising signal of issues to return when Republicans take full management of Washington on Jan. 20.
