DON SURBER: X Defeats Congress: In 32 days, Trump returns as president.
Schumer assembled a 1,547-page spend-it-all bill—continuing resolution to use congressional jargon for trillion-dollar slush funding—and scheduled the vote for Friday, the last day on the congressional calendar, giving congressmen the choice between saying yes or being blamed for a government shutdown at Christmastime.
Bwahaha, he cackled.
Elon Musk said we’ll just see about that. He lit up Twitter and fueled the biggest, fastest and most effective backlash since Bud Light.
It’s a battle, not the war, and the political machine is cunning and without scruples. But yeah.
And the GOP needs to just pass a clean continuing resolution and if Democrats kill it, they’ll be the ones shutting down the government. And bills for hurricane relief can stand on their own feet, instead of being bundled into an omnibus bill as hostages.