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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Chaos in Congress again is Elon Musk and Donald Trump blow up a bipartisan agreement to fund

the American government through mid-March and avoid a Friday night government shutdown. What does

this mean for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who put together the deal and the ability of Republicans

to govern when they run the entire government next year? And should Republicans just cut out the

middleman and maybe make Elon Musk speaker of the House.

That's our topic for today on Potomac Watch, the opinion page podcast of the Wall Street Journal.

I'm Paul as you go with Kim Strassel and Alicia Finley.

And, you know, no Congress seems to finish these days without a spectacle, Kim.

Oh, my gosh.

So why did Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, his partner in the Department of Government Efficiency

under Trump, why'd they blow this up?

What did they want?

So here's what was in the agreement that was prior to this blowup heading to being passed.

This was a continuing resolution to keep the government

funded until March 14th, but as a price of getting that through the House and the Senate,

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