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What we’re watching: Trump and Johnson stare down a shutdown

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Here’s what we’re watching in transition world today:

🗓️ What we’re watching

  • House Republican leaders planned to work through Thursday night and into Friday on a Plan C for funding the government, after abandoning their deal with Democrats and failing to pass an alternative backed by President-elect Donald Trump. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to return to the original deal.
  • Trump is insistent that any deal eliminate the debt limit all together, or at least punt it until after his presidency. 
  • Johnson and Trump are weighing the pros and cons of a shutdown. 
  • The blame game for a potential shutdown is already starting, with Vice President-elect JD Vance telling reporters Thursday that Democrats “asked for a shutdown and I think that’s exactly what they’re going to get.”
  • Elon Musk’s involvement in the unraveling of the funding bill raised questions about whether he was simply getting a head start on his cost-cutting duties as the leader of the so-called Department of Governmental Efficiency with the blessing of Trump — or freelancing. If there were any hurt feelings between Trump and Musk, it was not apparent in the immediate aftermath.
  • The collapse of Congress’ spending negotiations is throwing the presidential transition and preparations for Trump’s second inauguration into chaos as Washington stares down the prospect of a government shutdown just after midnight Friday.

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