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It was former President Obama who famously quipped that “elections have consequences,” and one of the consequences of the 2024 election is that President-elect Donald Trump will tell Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami He asked for cooperation in correcting the government’s books.
Just days before Christmas, the United States is staring at a federal government shutdown as Democrats cling to power as the hourglass expires in the 118th Congress. All because Musk exposed the bloated spending proposed to fund the federal government.
“We got a deal!” Democrats whine. And they introduced a bill that is awful, pork-filled, censorship-filled, and unnecessarily long at 1,500 pages. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson should never have agreed to this bill in the first place.
The purpose of the continuing resolution, which Congress is struggling to pass, is to keep the lights on until March, when a new Republican-controlled Senate takes office and Mr. Trump takes the White House. Instead, as Mr. Musk rightly pointed out, if not the omnibus bill, then at least the Omniminivan bill has ballooned to the gills.
United States – September 12: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) speaks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol after the final vote of the week on Thursday, September 12, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
The typical route in Washington is the path of least resistance, with Republicans thinking they could succumb to Biden’s last major spending package before Trump takes office. But then Musk and Ramaswamy intervened.
On Wednesday, hours before a scheduled vote in the House, Mr. Musk began posting He accused the funding of being a sham. This operation, along with a host of other pork, censors conservatives.
Once new media like Trump and and began to change direction.
Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) spoke on Fox News Digital about ending Title 42, the emergency border protocol. (Fox News)
On Thursday night, all Democrats in the House voted against the bill, along with 38 bloody opponents in the Republican caucus.
First, let’s take Rep. Chip Roy as an example of recalcitrant Republican non-voting. If he’s dying and Congress votes for a bill to “save Chip Roy’s life,” without offsets in spending, the Texas lawmaker will give a firm “no.” Probably. It’s just who he is.
This means that the Republican “no” vote was baked in, and Democrats thought they could use it to force CVS to accept their absurd and expensive demands.
And if it weren’t for those meddlesome kids, Mask and Ramaswamy, they would have gotten away with it too.
The government may shut down on Saturday. If that were the case, it would not be the fault of Republicans, who brought a perfectly reasonable bill to the floor, but the fault of Democrats, who value their power more than the federal workers who get paid during Christmas week.
Elections have consequences, and if he wins, outsiders like Musk and Ramaswamy will not only have a seat at the table, but they will have real power and influence in promoting Trump’s policies, Trump said. It was obvious.
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Perhaps more than anything else, what voters wanted on Election Day when they handed the keys of the state back to Trump was change. Nothing more. And that’s exactly what voters got this week.
Don’t get me wrong, Trump is taking a real political risk here. Democrats will now do everything in their power to pin the blame for the government shutdown on him, paint him as a puppet of Mr. Musk, and stoke partisan divisions to dampen optimism and enthusiasm ahead of Inauguration Day. is.
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But Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are hoping that this kind of fundamental change, as disruptive as it may seem, is exactly what voters want.
Politicians are ultimately judged by their results, not their tactics. As ugly as the current Congressional situation is, the resulting repeal of terrible spending should ultimately yield results that the American people will rejoice over.
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