Uniparty Republicans are furious that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will run President-elect Donald Trump’s government efficiency panel, killed the bazillion-dollar continuing resolution yesterday.
For Musk had warned that any lawmaker who voted for it must be removed from office in two years.
Trump gave Musk permission to rail against the measure, and Trump himself threatened to primary any Republican who voted for it.
But Uniparty Republicans don’t say what the resolution funded. Disguised as a measure to keep the government running past tomorrow, it wasn’t just a massive waste of money. It was yet another woke finger in the eye of normal Americans.
Not a “Clean” Bill
As The New American reported yesterday, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson promised that any bill to keep the government open would be “clean.” He would not permit a “Christmas Omnibus” to pass.
He broke that promise when the 1,547-page behemoth was unveiled yesterday. Of course, it contained billions in wasteful spending, Fox News’s Jesse Watters reported:
- $850k for a gay senior home
- $15 million to pay for Egyptian’s college tuitions
- $400k for a gay activist group to teach elementary kids about being trans
- $500k for a DEI zoo
- $400k for a group to gives clothes to teens to help them hide their gender
But the bill was also larded with woke, crackpot leftist ideas, as U.S. Representative Nancy Mace of South Caroline observed. The resolution redefined words to comport with far-left sensitivity.
“Criminal offenders” became “justice involved individuals. “Homeless individuals” became “individuals experiencing homelessness.” “Low-skilled adults” became “adults with foundational skill needs.”
The bill also would have transferred the federally owned land for RFK Stadium to Washington, D.C. That might sound like a savings for taxpayers, but alas, something else was likely behind it.
X podcaster Mario Nawfal explained that the move would have “[set] the stage for new Commanders stadium.”
So the NFL, which pulls down $20 billion, “doesn’t need public subsidies, yet Congress is giving them a prime site for billionaire owners to cash in — without asking taxpayers,” he wrote:
Lawmakers are calling it “economic development,” but let’s be honest: it’s a taxpayer-funded playground for NFL elites, lobbyists, and VIPs, while schools, healthcare, and infrastructure are left on the bench.
Stuffed into a must-pass bill, there’s little time for oversight — or for taxpayers to question why their money is being leveraged for luxury suites and skyboxes.
No Investigations
More dangerously, the bill would have blocked the Trump administration from investigating the scandalous and possibly illegal activities of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. The U.S. House Oversight Committee has accused former GOP Representative Liz Cheney of witness tampering and key witness Cassidy Hutchinson of perjury.
Even worse, Johnson nearly rammed through a bill that would have inhibited incoming Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from adding vaccines to the vaccines injury table.
Fuming Lawmakers
Understandably, grifting lawmakers on Capitol Hill were, as Fox News reports, “furious” at Musk and Ramaswamy for trying to protect American taxpayers.
“Musk and Vivek should not have jumped in at the 11th hour and should have handled it directly with the speaker. Folks on the same side shouldn’t act like these two,” a GOP congressman told the network. “They’re more about the clicks and bright lights than getting the job done. I’ll have nothing to do with them after watching them publicly trash the speaker.”
Said a second: “If Elon and Vivek are freelancing and shooting off the hip without coordination with [President-elect Trump], they are getting dangerously close to undermining the actual 47th President of the United States.”
Or maybe a number of GOP lawmakers “are getting dangerously close” to being removed from office, having been outed by Musk, Ramaswamy, and then Trump.
Voted Out
“Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!” Musk wrote on X at 1:17 p.m. yesterday.
On Truth Social, Trump dared GOPers to vote for the bill.
“If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat ‘bells and whistles’ that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration,” he wrote:
Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried. Everything should be done, and fully negotiated, prior to my taking Office on January 20th, 2025.
Uniparty “Losers”
“The Uniparty is aiming their fire at Elon Musk and blaming him for killing their incestuous porkfest gov funding bill,” Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia wrote this morning on X:
However, it was the American people engaging and posting their outrage on X that killed the bill.
But they hate Elon because he bought X and protected free speech.…
The truth is they hate you, the people, for standing up to them.
They are angry they got caught in such a big way.
These losers waited for months knowing the government funding deadline was Friday, Dec 20th and refused to show any of us members of Congress the bill text until they dumped 1,500+ pages on us Tuesday night.
Taylor-Greene called the bill’s defeat “the most refreshing thing” she’s seen in her time on Capitol Hill.
Speaking to Fox talker Sean Hannity, GOP Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri said much the same thing.
Hawley called the bill “500 pages of pork barrel spending and worse than that, it’s all the woke garbage.”
“Here’s the thing that really gets me: Republicans negotiated this!” Hawley continued:
The speaker of the House negotiated this bill. It is a total travesty! This has got to change, Sean. I mean, we cannot go on like this, and I hope the Republican leadership gets the message here. The message of this election, which is that people want change, they don’t want this garbage. I’m a hard no on this thing, it is a joke, it is a travesty, and they need to go back to square one.
