Congress avoids shutdown, but this Trump-Musk whiplash is only a preview Opinion
President-elect Donald Trump, following the lead of his edgelord chancellor Elon Musk, has given congressional Democrats a gift that appears to keep on giving – a preview of the chaos to come.
That came in the shape of a looming government shutdown that was averted in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday evening, just six hours before the midnight deadline when government funding expires.
The House bill to avoid a shutdown was sent to the Senate for consideration, where it was overwhelmingly affirmed (if 38 minutes past the deadline into early Saturday). President Joe Biden signed it into law later that day.
Call this the ghosts of Christmas past and future, because Trump notoriously pushed the government into the nation's longest government shutdown just three days before Christmas in 2018.
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