19 December 2024 - US government shutdown looms
Trump rejects bipartisan US spending bill, raising government shutdown risk
Richard Cowan, Bo Erickson, Andy Sullivan and Katharine Jackson (Reuters, 19/12/2024)
President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday disrupted bipartisan efforts to avert a government shutdown as he pressured his fellow Republicans in Congress to reject a stopgap bill to keep the government funded past the end of the week.
Republicans scrap spending bill, under pressure from Trump and Musk
Marianna Sotomayor and Jacob Bogage (The Washington Post, 19/12/2024)
Republicans scrapped House Speaker Mike Johnson’s bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown, as President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk joined a broad swath of the House GOP on Wednesday to condemn a compromise bill full of Democratic policy priorities.
Trump demands government shutdown after Elon Musk rants over stopgap funding bill
Andrew Feinberg and Eric Garcia (The Independent, 19/12/2024)
President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance have demanded that Republicans in the House and Senate effectively force the federal government to shut down rather than pass a stopgap funding bill that would have kept agencies running at current funding levels through the end of March 2025.
Congress in disarray and shutdown looms as Trump, Musk slam spending deal
Max Matza (BBC News, 19/12/2024)
The possibility of a US government shutdown has grown more likely after President-elect Donald Trump called on Republican lawmakers to reject a bipartisan funding bill.