Elon Musk, new strong man in the House?

“Your elected representatives heard you and this terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed! » Elon Musk rejoiced in these terms on a paralysis of the federal state from Saturday.

With his billionaire friend Vivek Ramaswamy, Musk protested against this text which was too wasteful for his taste, finding a paralysis of the federal state preferable to its adoption. Donald Trump later added his voice to Musk’s protests, which had been echoed by his many admirers on the strong man of the House.

In the meantime, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is ready to blame Republicans for a federal government shutdown. “House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government. And harm the working class Americans they claim to support. If you break the bipartisan agreement, you will suffer the consequences,” the New York Democratic representative on

It should be noted that Johnson’s room for maneuver will be even narrower at the start of 2025, when the Republican majority will be reduced for a time to a single seat.

PS: In a statement on Truth Social, Trump calls on Congress to raise the debt ceiling by the end of Joe Biden’s presidency rather than waiting until June. “Raising the debt ceiling is not a good thing, but we would prefer to do it under Biden. If Democrats refuse to cooperate on the debt ceiling today, how can we expect them to do so in June, under our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should pass a simplified budget bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want,” he wrote.

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