It's shameful. Yes, I think this bill is better than it was yesterday on certain respects,

but to take this bill, to take this bill yesterday and congratulate yourself because it's

shorter in pages, but increases the debt by $5 trillion is asinine. And that's precisely what Republicans are doing. I'm absolutely

sickened by a party that campaigns on fiscal responsibility and has the temerity to go forward to the

American people and say, you think this is fiscally responsible. It is absolutely ridiculous.

Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas, a consistent critic of spending bills,

calling out his own party yesterday. His rant highlights this self-made crisis for the Republican

Party. Get ready. They had a bipartisan bill that would have passed this week, but then Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed it. Then yesterday, they hastily put together a Trump-back package only for it to be rejected by dozens of Republicans and almost all Democrats who were not going to give in to Trump or Musk's demands. To top things off,

Elon Musk may get rewarded for all of this, as some Republicans are now floating him as the next

Speaker of the House. Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It's Friday, December 20th. I'm

Jonathan Lemire in for Joe, Mika, and Willie.

With us, we have a great group. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post,

Eugene Robinson. NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitale, co-founder and CEO of Axios, Jim Vanda High,

co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC, Simone Sanders Townsend, and editor of the New

Republic, Michael Tamasky. It has been a dizzying stretch here. Let's dive right in and try to sort it out.

With less than 24 hours to go, Congress still has no path forward to fund the government. Capitol Hill in complete

chaos yesterday after President-elect Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire buddy, torched the bipartisan

agreement to fund the government through March. Congressional leadership and vice president-elect

J.D. Vance spent the day working on new legislation that would

appease Trump and the already very small Republican majority. After hours of negotiations,

the group managed to come out with a bill that had Trump's seal of support, a dramatically

smaller bill. However, it did not have the full backing of the Republican

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