The specter of government paralysis is receding again. The Republicans in the House reached an agreement at the last minute on a measure to avoid the shutdown. A plan that received the green light from Donald Trump.
Speaking of a “success”, the president-elect invited everyone to approve the agreement which, among other things, postpones the expiry of the debt ceiling by two years, a “very important element for America’s agenda First”.
Trump’s promotion comes after the president-elect and his first buddy Elon Musk trashed the first bipartisan agreement to avoid partial government paralysis starting Saturday, laboriously negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
As the new secretary of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has begun attacking the law and pressuring Republicans on Capitol Hill, even threatening them with being excluded from the next midterm elections in 2026.
“It must not be approved, it is full of waste”, he began on X, starting about fifty insistent posts. A line also espoused by The Donald, who defined it as “a betrayal of our country”. In a joint statement with his deputy JD Vance he then urged Republicans to “get smart and tough. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then we need to call their bluff.” “The only way to do this – he said – is with a temporary financing law without gifts to the Democrats, combined with an increase in the debt ceiling.”
The chronology of the pressures – first Musk, only later the president-elect – gave rise to attacks from the Democrats, who defined the richest man in the world as the true “shadow president” and accused Trump of having adopted the style of Tesla patron, who “takes risks and blows things up.” At this point it was up to Johnson to find a solution in the next few hours. The speaker held a series of frenetic consultations all day with congressional Republicans in search of a plan B.
Meanwhile, the president-elect scored another judicial victory with the removal of prosecutor Fani Willis from the prosecution for attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 election in Georgia, a decision that will likely lead to the case being closed. After a trial in the spotlight for an alleged conflict of interest due to the secret relationship with Nathan Wade, the man she herself had appointed special prosecutor in the proceedings against the tycoon, Willis was saved by a ruling in her favor but the Court appeal overturned the decision. The one in Georgia is the last trial against Trump still standing after special prosecutor Jack Smith dismissed the one for the secret papers at Mar-a-Lago and the insurrection of January 6, 2021, while the sentence for the payments case porn star Stormy Daniels has been remanded indefinitely to New York, despite a jury finding the president-elect guilty.
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