3 thoughts on “Betting on Shutdown: Thanks, Trump!”
joseph
You should be thanking Elon Musk. He is the one who started the attack on the continuing resolution with a barrage of over 100 tweets on Wednesday, many making false claims about items in the bill. Musk included threats to primary any Republicans voting for the resolution. Trump didn’t chime in until 11 hours later. It’s Musk who is in charge now.
Among Musk’s lies:
Congress was giving themselves a 40% pay raise — lie.
The bill was funding bioweapons labs — lie.
The bill was giving DC $3 billion for a baseball stadium — lie.
The bill allocated $60 billion for Ukraine — lie.
The bill included mask and vaccine mandates — lie.
The bill gives blanket immunity to Liz Cheney — lie.
In my experience, retired since 2019 one continuing resolution I recall set spending during the CR period to be limited to the immediate prior fiscal year.
So after trashing the bipartisan agreement, the Republicans went off in a corner and wrote their own bill to Musk’s specifications — and of course it failed 174 to 235 with 38 Republicans voting against their own bill.
So here is Musk:
“A fair and simple bill was put to a vote and only 2 Democrats were in favor. Therefore responsibility for the shutdown rest squarely on the shoulders of [minority leader] Jeffries.”
And some people think Musk is a genius. He can’t even count.
You should be thanking Elon Musk. He is the one who started the attack on the continuing resolution with a barrage of over 100 tweets on Wednesday, many making false claims about items in the bill. Musk included threats to primary any Republicans voting for the resolution. Trump didn’t chime in until 11 hours later. It’s Musk who is in charge now.
Among Musk’s lies:
Congress was giving themselves a 40% pay raise — lie.
The bill was funding bioweapons labs — lie.
The bill was giving DC $3 billion for a baseball stadium — lie.
The bill allocated $60 billion for Ukraine — lie.
The bill included mask and vaccine mandates — lie.
The bill gives blanket immunity to Liz Cheney — lie.
In my experience, retired since 2019 one continuing resolution I recall set spending during the CR period to be limited to the immediate prior fiscal year.
Adding things is asking for clsoure!
So after trashing the bipartisan agreement, the Republicans went off in a corner and wrote their own bill to Musk’s specifications — and of course it failed 174 to 235 with 38 Republicans voting against their own bill.
So here is Musk:
“A fair and simple bill was put to a vote and only 2 Democrats were in favor. Therefore responsibility for the shutdown rest squarely on the shoulders of [minority leader] Jeffries.”
And some people think Musk is a genius. He can’t even count.