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The era of Donald Trump and Elon Musk has unofficially begun in Washington. In the space of a few hours and a few threatening posts, first the first buddy and then the president-elect swept away the bipartisan agreement to avoid the partial paralysis of the government starting from Saturday, laboriously negotiated by the speaker of the House Mike Johnson who is now in trouble.
The real architect of the chaos was the richest man in the world who, as the new secretary of the Department for Government Efficiency, began to attack the law and put pressure on the 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 few hours pass and also Donald Trump rejects bipartisan agreement that allocates more than $100 billion for natural disasters and farmers in the bill to fund the government through March.
«Become smart and tough»
“It is a betrayal of our country,” the president-elect said in a joint statement with his deputy J.D. Vance urging Republicans 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.”
“The only way to do it – he dictated – is with a temporary financing law without gifts to the Democrats, combined with an increase in the debt ceiling.”
For Democrats, Musk is the “shadow president”
Pressure history – first Muskonly later did the president-elect give rise to the attacks of the Democrats, who defined the richest man in the world as the true “shadow president” and accused Trump of having adopted the style of the owner of Tesla, who “takes risks and makes things explode.”
Cut aid for disasters and agriculture
At this point it will be up to Johnson 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.
According to Politico, Johnson’s idea would be to eliminate more than $100 billion in disaster aid plus another $30 billion for farmers and instead pass a streamlined bridging bill, then deal with other issues in the new year.
Judicial victory for Trump
Meanwhile, the president-elect scored another judicial victory with the removal of the 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 under the spotlight for an alleged conflict of interest due to the secret relationship with Nathan Wadethe man she herself had appointed as special prosecutor in the proceedings against the tycoon, Willis was saved by a ruling in her favor but the Court of Appeal overturned the decision.
The one in Georgia is the last trial against Trump still standing after the 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 case of payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels was postponed indefinitely to New York, even though a jury found the president-elect guilty.
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