High Home Democrat says ‘exhausting go’ to Trump’s demand for debt ceiling enhance
Chances are high, any authorities funding invoice will want at the very least some Democratic votes to go the Home, for the reason that GOP has a tiny majority within the chamber and it seems unlikely the speaker, Mike Johnson, will get all of his lawmakers to help the laws.
So what do Democrats consider Donald Trump’s demand that the funding deal be paired with a rise within the debt ceiling? The Democratic Home minority chief, Hakeem Jeffries, answered that query, in a publish on Bluesky:
GOP extremists need Home Democrats to lift the debt ceiling in order that Home Republicans can decrease the quantity of your Social Safety test.
Exhausting go.
The highest Home Democrat has not but responded to Trump’s demand that the debt restrict be abolished completely. Previously, a number of the get together’s lawmakers have proposed laws to try this, however the concept has by no means gone far.
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Republican senators specific frustration over Trump meddling in spending talks – report
As they left a lunch with JD Vance, Republican senators voiced to CNN their considerations with Donald Trump’s calls for that they throw out a compromise invoice to fund the federal government and as a substitute conform to a brand new one that features rising or eliminating the debt ceiling.
Right here’s what Rand Paul of Kentucky needed to say:
“They’re trying,” he stated of Trump’s effort to lift or eliminate debt ceiling. “But I don’t think they’ll get there … Getting rid of the debt ceiling seems to be fiscally irresponsible.”
Paul added: “It’s a little bit late in the game to be putting debt ceiling on this anyway.”
And Chuck Grassley of Iowa:
Sen. Chuck Grassley, leaving a GOP lunch, informed us there was no plan but introduced to them to keep away from a shutdown. “
When you’ve got a $35 trillion nationwide debt, it’s silly to close the federal government down,” he stated.
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The vibes on Capitol Hill round holding the federal government open stay dangerous.
Republican senator Susan Collin’s ideas on the matter, by way of Politico:
Are you feeling higher in regards to the CR? ‘I’m not, as a result of there’s no plan,’ Sen. Collins says
And right here’s what Mitt Romney thinks of what could also be one of many final votes of his Senate profession:
What does President Trump need Republicans to do: vote for the CR or shut down authorities? Absent course, confusion reigns.
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Bernie Sanders has criticized “President Elon Musk” over the billionaire’s efforts to derail a bipartisan spending deal that will preserve the federal government working for an additional three months.
“Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government,” stated Sanders, the impartial senator for Vermont who votes with Democrats, in an announcement.
“The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn’t like it. Will Republicans kiss the ring?”
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Trump indictment ‘nonetheless stands’ regardless of Fani Willis disqualification from prosecuting election case, professional says
Norm Eisen, Brookings Institute senior fellow, says there’s nonetheless hope for Donald Trump to be delivered to justice regardless of the disqualification of prosecutor Fani Willis from her case towards him and others for attempting to overthrow Georgia’s 2020 election outcomes.
Eisen stated: “The disqualification of Fani Willis is entirely unfounded, but there is a silver lining: the indictment against Trump still stands. It should be pursued vigorously. As we’ve seen in the New York case, Trump is not immune, and prosecutors must continue to hold him accountable.”
Eisen has admitted previously Willis’s resolution to rent her romantic companion Nathan Wade as a particular prosecutor for the case “represents poor judgment” however distracts from the actual challenge of election conspiracy.
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Senator Warren voices help for Trump name to get rid of debt ceiling
Extra lawmakers react to Trump’s requires abolishing the debt ceiling, which has despatched legislators into chaos as a authorities shutdown nears.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren in a uncommon present of help for Trump, stated on X: “I agree with President-elect Trump that Congress should terminate the debt limit and never again govern by hostage taking.”
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Senator John Thune of South Dakota, who’s the incoming majority chief, simply reacted to Donald Trump’s calls to get rid of the debt ceiling:
“I think that at some point we’re going to have to deal with that. It’s coming. How we deal with it, I’m open to suggestions.”
He informed reporters shortly after Trump’s announcement: “I do know there are different theories about how to deal with the debt limit going forward. If it was effective, we wouldn’t have a $35tn debt. So the debt limit for all intents and purposes has limited meaning in the modern world but it is something that markets obviously pay attention to.
“In terms of how we’re going to address it, I’m not sure exactly what that looks like at the moment.”
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Trump interference of presidency funding talks may imperil Mike Johnson
Donald Trump’s disruption of the federal government funding negotiations may put the Republican Home speaker, Mike Johnson, in a deadly place.
Johnson could should work with Democrats to maintain the federal government open past Friday, since his majority may be very small, and lots of of his lawmakers have strident calls for with regards to authorities spending and the debt ceiling. If Johnson does that, rightwing hardliners within the Home Republican convention could try and oust him from the speaker’s publish when the brand new Congress begins subsequent 12 months.
Democrats may theoretically intervene to vote for Johnson and preserve him within the speaker’s function. At a press convention earlier right now, the Home minority chief, Hakeem Jeffries, was requested if his get together would try this, assuming Johnson works with them on a short-term authorities funding invoice.
Jeffries replied:
No.
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In the case of Donald Trump’s calls for to lift or abolish the debt ceiling, there’s one group of lawmakers to pay explicit consideration to: the Home Freedom Caucus.
The group represents far-right Republicans in Congress’s decrease chamber, who extra are aligned with the president-elect than most. However these identical lawmakers have an extended historical past of opposing any enhance to the borrowing restrict, regardless of warnings from economists that the federal government defaulting on its debt would do grievous hurt to its international standing.
The caucus doesn’t seem to have but commented on Trump’s newest calls for, however right here’s a have a look at how they’ve talked in regards to the debt ceiling previously:
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High Home Democrat says ‘exhausting go’ to Trump’s demand for debt ceiling enhance
Chances are high, any authorities funding invoice will want at the very least some Democratic votes to go the Home, for the reason that GOP has a tiny majority within the chamber and it seems unlikely the speaker, Mike Johnson, will get all of his lawmakers to help the laws.
So what do Democrats consider Donald Trump’s demand that the funding deal be paired with a rise within the debt ceiling? The Democratic Home minority chief, Hakeem Jeffries, answered that query, in a publish on Bluesky:
GOP extremists need Home Democrats to lift the debt ceiling in order that Home Republicans can decrease the quantity of your Social Safety test.
Exhausting go.
The highest Home Democrat has not but responded to Trump’s demand that the debt restrict be abolished completely. Previously, a number of the get together’s lawmakers have proposed laws to try this, however the concept has by no means gone far.
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Rightwing lawmakers have backed Donald Trump’s calls to renegotiate the federal government spending invoice, even when it causes a shutdown.
Writing on X, Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene stated:
The Uniparty is aiming their fireplace at Elon Musk and blaming him for killing their incestuous porkfest gov funding invoice.
Nonetheless, it was the American folks participating and posting their outrage on X that killed the invoice.
However they hate Elon as a result of he purchased X and guarded free speech, which allowed the folks to struggle again and cease one other Uniparty shit sandwich.
The reality is that they hate you, the folks, for standing as much as them.
They’re offended they bought caught in such a giant manner.
These losers waited for months figuring out the federal government funding deadline was Friday, Dec twentieth and refused to point out any of us members of Congress the invoice textual content till they dumped 1,500+ pages on us Tuesday evening.
Tim Burchett of Tennessee was a bit extra succinct, scripting this morning:
Shut it down.
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Whereas the joint Trump-Vance assertion performed a serious function in upending the federal government funding talks, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy spent a lot of yesterday attacking the potential compromise.
The billionaire entrepreneurs gained heightened prominence after Donald Trump stated they’d co-chair a quasi-governmental “department of government efficiency” that’s tasked with downsizing the federal authorities.
On Wednesday, Musk and Ramaswamy educated their fireplace on the compromise invoice that will have stored the federal government open for the subsequent three months, and are actually crying victory after Trump torpedoed the laws.
Musk tweeted:
Your elected representatives have heard you and now the horrible invoice is lifeless. The voice of the folks has triumphed! VOX POPULI VOX DEI
And Ramaswamy wrote:
We the Individuals received. That’s how America is meant to work.
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Right here’s the joint assertion from Donald Trump and JD Vance yesterday afternoon by which they demanded Congress renegotiate the tentative deal to fund the federal government, and in addition elevate the debt ceiling.
Like a lot of the president-elect’s communications, it was posted on Fact Social:
Essentially the most silly and inept factor ever executed by Congressional Republicans was permitting our nation to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now one thing that have to be addressed.
In the meantime, Congress is contemplating a spending invoice that will give sweetheart provisions for presidency censors and for Liz Cheney. The invoice would make it simpler to cover the information of the corrupt January 6 committee—which achieved nothing for the American folks and hid safety failures that occurred that day. This invoice would additionally give Congress a pay enhance whereas many Individuals are struggling this Christmas.
Rising the debt ceiling is just not nice however we’d quite do it on Biden’s watch. If Democrats received’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anybody assume they’d do it in June throughout our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should always go a streamlined spending invoice that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats every part they need.
Republicans wish to help our farmers, pay for catastrophe reduction, and set our nation up for fulfillment in 2025. The one manner to try this is with a short lived funding invoice WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS mixed with a rise within the debt ceiling. Anything is a betrayal of our nation…
Trump now says he desires the restrict on how a lot debt the federal authorities can accumulate abolished completely.
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Trump threatens to ‘major’ Republicans, then declares: ‘EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!’
After demanding Republicans reject a three-month authorities funding invoice, Donald Trump yesterday night warned that any lawmaker from his get together who defies him can count on to face a major problem.
Writing on Fact Social, Trump stated:
If Republicans attempt to go a clear Persevering with Decision with out all the Democrat ‘bells and whistles’ that will likely be so harmful to our Nation, all it should do, after January twentieth, is convey the mess of the Debt Restrict into the Trump Administration, quite than permitting it to happen within the Biden Administration. Any Republican that will be so silly as to do that ought to, and can, be Primaried. Every thing ought to be executed, and totally negotiated, previous to my taking Workplace on January twentieth, 2025.
This morning, the president-elect wrote:
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!
The context for the latter remark is unclear.
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Georgia appeals courtroom boots Fani Willis from election interference case – report
A Georgia appeals courtroom has ordered that the prosecutor Fani Willis is disqualified from the case she introduced towards Donald Trump and 18 different defendants for allegedly plotting to overturn the state’s election lead to 2020, the Atlanta Journal-Structure stories.
Attorneys for the defendants accused Willis, the district lawyer of the Atlanta-area Fulton county, of getting a battle of curiosity on account of her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a particular prosecutor she employed for the case. Wade resigned from the prosecution earlier this 12 months, and in a 2-1 ruling, the appeals courtroom stated Willis ought to be disqualified as properly.
Right here’s extra, from the Journal-Structure:
In a 2-1 resolution, a panel of judges, all GOP appointees, concluded that Willis’ onetime romantic relationship with former particular prosecutor Nathan Wade constituted a battle of curiosity that merited her dismissal from the case.
‘After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her workplace,’ wrote judges Todd Markle and Trenton Brown for almost all. A 3rd choose, Benjamin Land, issued a strongly-worded dissent.
The bulk opinion additionally rejected a push from a number of defendants within the case to dismiss the indictment.
The choice is an enormous blow to Willis, some of the recognizable prosecutors within the nation who cruised to a second time period earlier this month towards a comparatively inexperienced Republican opponent. It additionally might be the loss of life knell for the fourth and ultimate case that resulted in prison charges towards Trump after he left workplace in January 2021.
Willis is predicted to enchantment the ruling to the Supreme Court docket of Georgia. A spokesman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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Trump requires eliminating debt ceiling, additional complicating negotiations – report
Just some hours in the past, Donald Trump rejected a tentative deal in Congress to maintain the federal government funded by means of the primary few months of his time period, and demanded lawmakers enhance the nation’s borrowing restrict in any new compromise.
Now, the president-elect has modified his calls for, by telling NBC Information in an interview that he desires the debt ceiling eradicated outright. “The Democrats have said they want to get rid of it. If they want to get rid of it, I would lead the charge,” Trump informed the broadcaster.
The US is certainly one of a small variety of nations with a statutory restrict on how a lot debt the federal authorities can accumulate, and over the previous decade and a half, Republicans have repeatedly demanded concessions from Democrats in alternate for voting to extend it.
Eliminating it completely could be an enormous ask at any time, however much more so now, with the federal government’s funding authorizations set to run out in lower than 48 hours. Right here’s extra about what the debt ceiling is, and the way it works:
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Chaos in Congress after Trump torpedoes spending take care of authorities shutdown close to
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Simply yesterday, it appeared like Congress was on the verge of enacting laws to maintain the federal government working for the subsequent three months and forestall a shutdown that will start after midnight on Friday. However on X, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and different conservatives whose affect grew after Donald Trump received re-election had been busy condemning the deal. It was an effort that culminated yesterday afternoon, when the president-elect and JD Vance blew up the negotiations completely by declaring that the invoice ought to be scrapped and changed with a brand new one which additionally will increase nation’s debt ceiling – a shock demand that hadn’t been raised beforehand. The incoming administration’s opposition blew up the funding compromise, and now it’s as much as the Republican Home speaker, Mike Johnson, to select up the items, with lower than 48 hours remaining till the federal government shuts down. Evidently, few in Congress needed this to occur with the Christmas vacation proper across the nook. We’ll discover out right now if the GOP has it in them to show the scenario round.
Right here’s what else we’re watching right now:
Democrats seem content material to let Republicans personal the federal government funding fiasco, with the Home minority chief, Hakeem Jeffries, tweeting that the GOP has “been ordered to shut down the government”.
The Wall Avenue Journal has revealed a prolonged look into how the White Home managed Joe Biden’s public ageing throughout his presidency and earlier than – which was a significant component in his resolution to finish his re-election bid earlier this 12 months.
Biden and Kamala Harris don’t have any public occasions on their schedule. The president is returning to Washington DC right now from Delaware, whereas the vice-president flies this night to Los Angeles.
