The United States House of Representativeswith a Republican majority, rejected a bill presented by the Republicans to avoid the shutdownthe freeze on federal payments. There were 174 votes in favor and 235 against, with 38 Republicans joining the Democrats, who voted no. The president-elect, Donald Trumphad previously sunk a bipartisan text that would have covered the budget to finance government activities. Republicans’ decision to withdraw support for a bipartisan bill came after President-elect Donald Trump and Vice J.D. Vance they had declared themselves against it.
The White House: Republicans obey billionaires
The White House spokeswoman accused Republicans of “doing the bidding of billionaires.” “Republicans in Congress,” spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said, “are following the orders of billionaire benefactors at the expense of hard-working Americans.” «They have reneged on their promise to support a bipartisan agreement – he added – which would have lowered the costs of medical prescriptions and made it more difficult to move jobs to China, and instead now they want to favor a law that paves the way for tax breaks for billionaires, while cutting essential programs that working families rely on.”
The proposal of two senators: Musk Speaker of the House
With the Republican Mike Johnson cornered by his own party colleagues for having supported the bipartisan anti-shutdown law, some representatives of the House have proposed the nomination of Elon Musk a Speaker of the House, the highest role in the American Congress and the third in line of succession after the president of the United States and his deputy.
The South African billionaire owner of X, SpaceX and Tesla could technically serve as leader of the House because he is not required to be elected. A person from outside Congress can also act as Speaker, to the point that last year the Republicans had proposed entrusting this role to Trump himself. The proposal was launched by two conservative senators, Rand Paul and Mike Lee, and immediately picked up by House representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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