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President-elect Donald Trump and VP-elect J.D. Vance are blasting a bipartisan measure

aimed at preventing a government shutdown after midnight Friday ahead of the holiday.

Trump basically telling House Speaker Mike Johnson to renegotiate.

Entrepreneur Al-N Musk, co-head of Trump's newly created advisory group

on government efficiency, also blasted the measure, saying any member of the House or Senator

votes for this outrageous bill deserves to be voted out in two years. Measure to keep the government

running through March included the first congressional pay raises since 2009, bringing House members annual

salaries to $180,600 a year.

The Supreme Court is stepping into the TikTok debate.

As NPR's Bobby Allen explains, the High Court has agreed to review whether a law that could

ban the app next month is constitutional.

The Supreme Court has accepted TikTok's emergency motion to review a law

President Biden signed in April. The law bans TikTok nationwide unless it is sold to a non-Chinese

company that is meant to address lawmakers' national security concerns over possible Chinese

influence. Earlier this month, the federal appeals court affirmed the ban law, saying it actually

protects free speech by preventing an

adversarial government from censoring content. But lawyers for TikTok say singling out an app for shutdown

used by roughly half of America is an unprecedented violation of the First Amendment. The High Court

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