Musk (left) shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump backstage at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show on October 5, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday spoke out against a Republican-backed government spending bill, backing Elon Musk’s campaign against the plan and raising the prospect of a government shutdown.
Trump opposes the resolution that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson continues to introduce, according to a source familiar with the president-elect’s thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
Sources confirmed that Trump tell the fox news host He is “totally opposed” to CR.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, released a joint statement between him and Trump, declaring that politicians should “pass a simplified bill” that would not give Democrats ” Everything they want”.
“Republicans want to support our farmers, fund disaster relief, and position our country for success in 2025. The only way to do that is to pass a stopgap appropriations bill without Democratic giveaways while raising the debt limit,” Wan Si’s statement on X.
“Any other action would be a betrayal of our country,” their statement read.
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