clear plan to avoid the looming shutdown, the House rejected the spending deal, 174 to 235.

It needed a two-thirds majority to pass.

The second GOP-led proposal, I'm going to say it again, GOP-led proposal included disaster relief, aid for farmers, and a two-year extension to the debt ceiling.

It also had the support of President-elect Donald Trump.

But 38 Republicans voted against it, and it only won over two Democrats.

Many other Democratic lawmakers are angry about Elon Musk's influence in the process.

I want to share what we heard from Vermont Senator Peter Welsh about that.

You give $277 million to a campaign.

You get a seat at the table and maybe the head of the table.

And this all started with his tweeting and then Trump piled on, it agreement that had the support of the president, the speaker, and the Senate leadership.

Let's just take a moment and realize this spectacle of a $400 billion man using the platform he purchased to bully an entire branch of the federal government and he bullied them into public chaos people on the same team that is where we are

and Trump isn't even in office yet musk john Johnson proposal is not serious.

It's laughable.

Extreme Magid Republicans are driving us to a government shutdown.

Yeah, and I mean, I think a lot of them came to Congress, you know, by running against Congress, right?

They came to Congress, say, we got to throw a wrench in it, the shutter down mentality.

That is a very real aspect up on Capitol Hill.

There's a very real aspect in the Republican Party.

If you came here just to sort of prove that government doesn't work, you know, voting for continuing resolutions and, you know, trying to make the thing, the system work and a little bit better, that's not what you came here to do. That's not what your voter sent you here to do either. So, you know,

they've got a real problem. I think it's a problem that no one person can really solve just

because, you know, the speaker changes. That doesn't mean that they're going to suddenly have the

votes to do these things.

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