Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) slammed GOP leaders Thursday night after the Republicans’ Trump-backed plan to fund the federal authorities and lift the debt ceiling was trounced on the Home ground.
Jeffries accused Republicans of caving to the calls for of Elon Musk, the billionaire Trump loyalist, whose opposition to a bipartisan spending settlement helped tank that deal and left Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) scrambling for an alternate on Thursday.
That second proposal was shot down in a lopsided vote of 174 to 235, with one lawmaker voting current — an extended methods from the two-thirds majority (273 votes) required to cross the measure below the fast-track process Republicans tried.
“The Musk-Johnson government shutdown bill has been soundly defeated,” Jeffries posted on Bluesky, an alternate platform to Musk’s X.
“MAGA extremists in the House GOP are not serious about helping working class Americans,” he continued. “They’re merely doing the bidding of their rich donors and puppeteers.
“Unacceptable.”
It is unclear what occurs subsequent. The overwhelming defeat of Johnson’s partisan invoice means it has no likelihood of passing the decrease chamber even when it goes by common order, which might require solely a easy majority to cross.
If Congress fails to behave, giant components of the federal authorities will shutter on Saturday at 12:01 a.m.
