My is on the Republican side of the aisle over there.

He's got some food range chickens, and they wander off, and he can't catch up.

And there's only one person right now who can catch him, and that's Donald Trump.

The agenda here is drama, disruption, and who's going to pay the price of that?

It's those farmers in Vermont. It's those

small businesses in Nashville, North Carolina. This is utterly irresponsible because it had

nothing to do with trying to get us to an agreement. It had everything to do with trying to

disrupt. Well, that was Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana and then Democratic Senator Peter

Welch of Vermont reacting to the failed House Republican bill to avoid a government shutdown.

We'll bring you the very latest on efforts to reach a new agreement before midnight tonight.

Meanwhile, some Democrats are blaming Elon Musk for killing a bill that would have kept the government running.

But some Republicans are now floating Musk as the next Speaker of the House.

We'll get into who's supporting that move.

Plus, an update on the Amazon workers who are striking in four states and how it could impact deliveries now less than a week from Christmas.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Friday, December 20th.

My last day hosting this show, thank you for joining us today and every day.

I'm Jonathan Lemire.

It is a been a pleasure.

Let's get right to the news.

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

Chaos flowed through the Capitol Hill yesterday after President-elect Trump and his top advisor,

Elon Musk, torched the bipartisan agreement to fund the government through March. Congressional leadership

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