After Republicans caved on Wednesday to multibillionaire Elon Musk’s calls for that the Home’s bipartisan spending invoice be scrapped, Donald Trump’s flacks are scrambling to make it look like their Dear Leader continues to be in cost.
And so they’re going to must work even tougher after the GOP-controlled Home failed to pass the bill Trump supported Thursday night time.
“As quickly as President Trump launched his official stance on the CR, Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his viewpoint,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Business Insider earlier within the day, earlier than Trump’s most popular invoice failed. “President Trump is the chief of the Republican Get together. Full cease.”
The truth that the world’s richest man wrote “more than 150 separate posts on X” demanding the GOP scuttle the spending invoice earlier than Trump deigned to chime in tells a special story.
“It is not Donald Trump asking for this. It’s totally clearly President Elon Musk asking for this,” Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Wednesday night time. “The truth that Donald Trump has been utterly AWOL throughout these negotiations to the purpose the place solely after Elon Musk publicly tweets about his displeasure about this price range deal, impulsively, Donald Trump, chief of workers to Elon Musk, comes trotting in and blows up the deal.”
The unhappy irony is that the bipartisan persevering with decision was stuffed with funding for farmers, infrastructure, and catastrophe aid—all of which would benefit Trump-voting Republicans.
The GOP created this disaster and now, a authorities shutdown is an actual risk—and the chaos continues with questions about whether or not or not Mike Johnson will stay Home speaker. Distinguished Republican lawmakers like Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have even floated the concept King Musk should become the next speaker.
“A nerve has been struck. Trump is intimidated by President Elon. Now he has his spokesperson out doing harm management trigger Elon is looking the pictures,” Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost wrote on Bluesky. “Trump was silent on the invoice till his boss, President Elon, spoke.”
Ideas and prayers.
