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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., made it clear they only intend to move forward with the plan original of the interim spending bill that Republicans scrapped after pressure from billionaire Elon Musk. i President-elect Donald Trump.
Murray said she’s ready a partial government shutdown and stay in Washington, D.C., for the Christmas break if Republicans don’t go back to the original short-term spending bill that was released earlier this week and was killed after Musk and others publicly oppose its provisions.
“I’m ready to stay here until Christmas because we’re not going to let Elon Musk run the government,” he said in a statement Friday morning, hours before the government could be sent into a partial shutdown if a bill .
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Top Democrats signaled their unwillingness to advance any other GOP version of a stopgap bill. (Reuters)
From Thursday, the US national debt was at $36,167,604,149,955.61 and continues to rise rapidly.
“Simply put, we shouldn’t let an unelected billionaire rip off pediatric cancer research so he can get a tax cut or eliminate policies that help the United States beat China because it could hurt their bottom line. We had a bipartisan agreement; we should stick to that,” Murray said.
Speaking on the floor Friday morning, Schumer said, “If Republicans don’t work with Democrats on a bipartisan basis very soon, the government will shut down at midnight.”
“It’s time to go back to the original deal we had just a few days ago. It’s time for the House to vote on our bipartisan CR. It’s the fastest, easiest, and easiest way to ensure that the government stays open while providing aid to “emergency criticism of the American people”.
He also said that if Speaker Mike Johnson brought the original bill to the House floor for a vote, “it would pass and we could put the threat of a shutdown behind us.”
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Musk eviscerated the original bill on social media. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Murray added, “The deal that has already been agreed upon would responsibly fund the government, provide much-needed disaster relief to America’s communities, and provide some good bipartisan political reforms. The American people do not want the chaos or a costly government shutdown all because an The unelected billionaire wants to make the decision: I’m willing to work with Republicans and Democrats to pass the bipartisan deal negotiated by both sides as soon as possible.”
After Musk and the conservatives clashed Bill of 1,547 pages, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance also ultimately condemned it, killing any chance it had left.
Murray’s statement on Friday came shortly after it was revealed that House Republicans were planning another continuing resolution (CR) vote in the morning on a different proposal. However, it is not clear whether the negotiations are being conducted across party lines or in a bicameral fashion.
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Trump pinned any shutdown on Biden. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Florida, told reporters Friday morning that House Republicans were “very close to an agreement” and that a vote could be taken in the morning.
However, if that deal is not the original interim spending bill, it appears that Murray and Senate Democrats would be willing to oppose it.
Murray isn’t alone in saying he’s willing to let government funding expire before the holidays, either. Several Republicans have expressed their willingness to let it shut down if Republicans can’t get a better deal.
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Murray criticized Elon Musk’s involvement. (REUTERS/Jon Cherry)
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Trump himself wrote on Truth Social Friday morning: “If there is going to be a government shutdown, let it start now, under the Biden administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP.’ This is a Biden problem for solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!”
A measure must be passed by Congress and signed by President Biden before midnight Saturday morning to avoid a partial shutdown.
