Tonight, President-elect Trump slamming a deal to keep the government from shutting down just days before Christmas.

The President-elect and its billionaire ally Elon Musk coming out in opposition,

Speaker Mike Johnson's deal days before the deadline, so what happens now?

And the major blow for Matt Gates, Mr. Trump's former attorney general pick.

The House Ethics Committee

secretly voting to release its report on him after its years-long investigation into allegations

of sexual misconduct and drug use. Also tonight, California declaring a state of emergency

over the bird flu after the CDC reported the first severe case in a separate state, what health

officials are saying.

The plunge on Wall Street after the Fed's decision to cut interest rates, the Dow falling

more than a thousand points.

It's worse losing streak in 50 years.

Flash flooding on the East Coast, the winter storm moving into the northeast, with rain and snow, we're tracking it all.

Caught on camera, the deadly plane crash in Hawaii.

The unruly passenger detained and later dying on a cruise ship, the FBI investigation.

As we gear up for record holiday travel our exclusive access inside the TSA and FBI bomb detection lab.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome in what could be seen as another sign of Elon Musk's growing influence within the Trump orbit.

The president-elect joined Musk today

and his call to scrap a spending bill backed by some Republicans, raising the chances of a government

shutdown. Musk, tasked with tackling wasteful spending in the new administration, posted throughout

the day on his ex-platform, demanding the spending bill be killed,

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