House Republicans ClusterMusk
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
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Summary
House Republicans on Thursday failed to pass their backup plan to fund the government temporarily. The bill’s demise left lawmakers with few options to avert a looming shutdown Friday, after President-elect Donald Trump and his ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk used their respective social media platforms earlier this week to blow up a bipartisan deal. Politico politics reporter Mia McCarthy, explains the prospects of a government shutdown just a few days before Christmas and the start of Hanukkah.
Later in the show, Melissa’ Murray, co-host of Crooked’s ‘Strict Scrutiny,’ recaps an eventful year at the Supreme Court.
And in headlines: Secretary of State Antony Blinken expresses optimism about an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Amazon delivery drivers go on strike, and Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his annual press conference.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 20th. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waday, |
| 0:05.9 | the show that refuses to end the year talking about the drones. |
| 0:09.3 | We know there's a lot going on with the drones, |
| 0:11.7 | but frankly, we feel it's none of our business. |
| 0:14.5 | Whatever the drones are into, that's what I say. |
| 0:17.2 | Fly free, little buddies. |
| 0:26.7 | Thank you. Fly free, little buddies. On today's show, Trump and Elon Musk give us a Christmas gift, |
| 0:29.9 | and it's complete chaos on the hill, which is not what I requested. |
| 0:33.2 | And Vladimir Putin seems very cheery about the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:36.4 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:38.3 | Twas the week before Christmas and Hanukkah, and all through the House, Republicans were |
| 0:42.5 | fighting about a government shutdown. I realize House and shutdown don't rhyme, but we have bigger |
| 0:47.3 | problems. Because today is a deadline for Congress to pass a bill to fund the government. |
| 0:52.1 | Or watch it all shut down. And as of our recording |
| 0:55.2 | late Thursday, it's not looking good. House Republicans failed to pass their plan B of a spending bill |
| 1:01.0 | late Thursday night. On this vote, the a's are 174. The nays are 235. One voting present. |
| 1:09.9 | Two-thirds not being in the firm. The rules are not suspended and the |
| 1:13.4 | bill is not passed. What happened to plan A? President-elect Donald Trump and his first buddy |
| 1:18.9 | Elon Musk blew it up Wednesday. They did so in a series of tweets and truths and other very |
| 1:24.1 | serious ways of negotiating legislation that directly affects people's lives and paychecks. |
| 1:29.7 | It left House Speaker Mike Johnson scrambling to put together something that could win Trump's endorsement, |
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