{"id":139679,"date":"2024-12-21T19:22:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/us-government-shutdown-barely-averted-after-trump-and-musk-halted-bipartisan-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:22:12","slug":"us-government-shutdown-barely-averted-after-trump-and-musk-halted-bipartisan-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/us-government-shutdown-barely-averted-after-trump-and-musk-halted-bipartisan-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Shutdown Barely Averted, After Trump and Musk Halted Bipartisan Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">The Senate <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/12\/20\/us\/government-shutdown-trump-news\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/12\/20\/us\/government-shutdown-trump-news&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/12\/20\/us\/government-shutdown-trump-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted<\/a> 85 to 11 to pass the stopgap spending bill shortly after midnight on Saturday morning, warding off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/republicans-own-this-shutdown-sh-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government shutdown<\/a> before the holidays. President <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> signed the bill, which already received House approval on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The 11th-hour deal came after President-elect <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/elon-musk-is-already-getting-republicans-to-do-his-bidding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help<\/a> of ally and billionaire <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>, tanked bipartisan congressional budget negotiations earlier this week. Following critiques from the pair, Republicans tossed Speaker of the House <strong>Mike Johnson<\/strong>\u2019s bill, forcing him to rework the legislation in just a couple of short days. The spending bill will fund the government through March 14, potentially opening up another contentious approval process in the first months of Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Friday evening, Musk took to his social media site, X, formerly Twitter, to celebrate the House\u2019s decision to pass the revised bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1870256283980300507\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1870256283980300507&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1870256283980300507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> commenting on how many pages the old bill was versus the new, Trump and Musk backed one, he spoke directly to his followers, saying, \u201cYour actions turned a bill that weighed pounds into a bill that weighed ounces! You are the media now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cVOX POPULI,\u201d he continued, \u201cVOX DEI\u201d\u2014Latin for the voice of the people is the voice of God.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE cmter caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__caption\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd jSwmTa iXWezO caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>US President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cvffOM fNaHcW caption__credit\">Brandon Bell\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">While Trump\u2019s pushback this week led to a deeply different final bill, he didn\u2019t get everything on his wishlist. Despite his demands to Republicans to suspend the debt limit, dozens refused, in a \u201crare breach by a group of Republicans who have traditionally backed Mr. Trump\u2019s policy preferences unquestioningly and taken pains to avoid defying him,\u201d <em>the New York Times<\/em>\u2019 <strong>Catie Edmondson<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew Duehren<\/strong> <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/20\/us\/politics\/gop-spending-hawks-trump-debt.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/20\/us\/politics\/gop-spending-hawks-trump-debt.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/20\/us\/politics\/gop-spending-hawks-trump-debt.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The final bill includes more than $110 billion in disaster aid funding, $10 billion in economic aid for farmers and a one-year extension of the farm bill, monies dedicated to replacing the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland, which collapsed after a cargo ship crashed into it in March, and an extension of a Covid-19-related measure that expanded the use of telehealth in Medicare\u2014amongst other things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/government-shutdown-averted-trump-musk-bipartisan-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted 85 to 11 to pass the stopgap spending bill shortly after midnight on Saturday morning, warding off a government shutdown before the holidays. President Joe Biden signed the bill, which already received House approval on Friday afternoon. The 11th-hour deal came after President-elect Donald Trump, with the help of ally and billionaire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4057,505,54,104,4714,644,381,1602,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-139679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-chuck-schumer","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-mike-johnson","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-republicans","15":"tag-senate","16":"tag-trump-administration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}