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Watch a reside view of the US Capitol after a Donald Trump-backed spending invoice failed within the Home of Representatives vote on Thursday.
Democrats killed the invoice, leaving Congress with no clear plan to avert a looming authorities shutdown that would deliver chaos earlier than Christmas.
Elon Musk, whom the president-elect has tipped to guide the newly-created “department of government efficiency”, waded in to scupper a earlier bipartisan deal.
The invoice failed with all however two Democrats and 38 Republicans voting in opposition to it, and 172 Republicans voting for it.
Home Republicans stated that they had struck a deal on a short-term funding invoice 24 hours after Mr Musk and Mr Trump derailed a decision and steered the federal government right into a shutdown the weekend earlier than Christmas.
Congressional Democrats referred to as the plan that Trump’s billionaire deputy touted hours earlier “laughable.” Home Democrats have been heard chanting “hell no” as they met to evaluate it on Thursday.
Reacting to the vote, the billionaire blasted Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries and stated the invoice may have helped states reeling from hurricanes earlier this 12 months.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr Trump praised the deal and claimed it might hold the federal government open and push the debt ceiling deadline again two years.
