Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Congress for the rest of this term, McConnell, Budgets, and

what happens next.

Okay, so a clear picture is developing of what Congress has in store for the next month and a half or so.

Congress has to approve funding soon to keep the doors of the government open.

The House GOP was incapable of getting appropriations through,

and there's no time for a real budget deal left.

That means they'll do another continuing resolution that'll keep the government open at current levels and kick the can further down the road into Trump's term,

into his first 100 days. Republicans want that first 100 days to be transformative, but now they've thrown a budget

fight into the middle of it. Now, if the Republican Party can cooperate and get over their infighting,

it would allow them to tune the budget to meet Trump's other agenda items. All of those things

Trump said he wanted to do on day one that require a legislative component.

If they can't cooperate, it throws a giant wrench into their ability to get anything else done.

Remember to think back.

The Republicans couldn't even get a budget out of the House when they had the majority.

Now they have to get a budget out of the House that would also get through the Senate.

Even if they're in lockstep, it adds pressure and takes time, making other pieces of Trump's agenda harder to accomplish early.

The GOP also has to be very careful with this budget. They control both houses. This budget is

theirs and theirs alone. So when Musk and Company decide to start slashing funding, the only things in the budget

will be things that Republicans voted for. If Musk finds hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts,

then Republicans in Congress voted to waste hundreds of billions of dollars. It's their budget.

They own it. The other thing they own are the economic consequences of the budget and eventual cuts. There's still no way of knowing

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