Keystone
The White House attacks the Republicans’ backtracking after the bipartisan agreement to avoid the shutdown.
“Republicans – reads a note from spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre – must stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will harm working Americans and create instability across the country.”
«President-elect Trump and his deputy Vance have ordered Republicans to shut down government operations and they are threatening to do just that, while undermining communities recovering from disasters, farmers and ranchers and community health centers ».
“Triggering a harmful government shutdown,” he continues, “would harm families who gather to see loved ones and would jeopardize the basic services that Americans, from veterans to Social Security recipients, rely on. A deal is a deal. Republicans should keep their word.”
Trump: «We must call their bluff»
Trump earlier rejected a bipartisan agreement in Congress that earmarks more than $100 billion for natural disasters and farmers in the bill to avoid a shutdown on Friday.
Suggesting in particular that concessions to Democrats are “a betrayal of our country,” the president-elect said in a joint statement with his deputy J.D. Vance that “Republicans need to get smart and tough. If Democrats are threatening to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then their bluff needs to be called.”
Before him, Elon Musk had hammered on X against the measure.
