** Inside Washington will return on January 2. Happy holidays!**
An agreement was struck. Washington was ready to leave for the holidays having come together on a plan to fund the government and avert a shutdown — albeit with some grumbling on the Maga right.
Then Elon Musk jumped in. By Thursday morning, that deal had collapsed.
Weeks of negotiations aimed at passing a continuing resolution — known as a "CR" — to keep the government funded and functional through the holiday season collapsed today.
The culprit? Musk, and to a much smaller extent Donald Trump. The former's daylong tirade against the spending package, which he dubbed a "criminal" bill for not cutting spending levels. Trump's opposition followed, largely tied to a desire to see the US debt limit raised along with the legislation.
Now, there's a new CR. It funds the government at current levels, avoiding the spending cuts Musk and others want to see. It also would put off a debt ceiling fight until 2027.
Still missing: A plan to get this thing to Joe Biden's desk.
Observers were skeptical the new bill could even pass the House as the sun went down Thursday and lawmakers continued to debate the legislation on the floor.
A preliminary vote Thursday evening under suspension of the rules failed — with more than two dozen Republicans in opposition.
Democrats, who are uniformly opposed to any deal that strays from an agreement they struck with Republicans earlier in the week, loudly proclaimed Elon Musk to have usurped Donald Trump's role as president-elect.
"We have an outside influence who believes, I think, that he is president. And that is President Musk," one Democrat told reporters.
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