It's Monday, December 23rd. We avoid him to shut down but not dysfunction. We start here.

A last-minute agreement to fund the government leads to questions about President-elect Trump and Elon Musk.

No, he's not going to be president that I can tell you.

We'll walk you through the deal and its political aftermath.

Hundreds of Germans are hit in a Christmas car attack.

Everything was crashed and blood was everywhere.

Authorities had prepared for this exact scenario, so how did it happen anyway?

And in the retail world, party's over.

Well, honestly, they're kind of expensive, so I'm just going to get the good deals while they're going out of business.

One of the country's most festive storefronts goes out of business, and it's not the only one.

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Brad Milky.

It's never a good sign in Washington when local bars start offering shutdown specials,

when they're expecting millions of federal workers to be furloughed, for contractors to be missing out on work.

Well, that's where we were heading into the weekend,

anticipating a government shutdown. Two-thirds not being in the affirmative, the rules are not

suspended, and the bill is not passed. Remember, Congress needs to agree to periodically

devote taxpayer dollars to the government programs that need it. And because there's a deadline

for this, because it's the one bill you know will get passed eventually, this becomes a magnet for other initiatives. As long as we're passing the budget,

let's just pass all these other things, right? And one fell swoop. Billionaire Elon Musk and then

President-elect Trump blew that deal up last week, suggesting that Republicans abandon all these

extras. Just one problem, Republicans can't pass anything by themselves.

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