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* Trump: If there has to be a shutdown, let it begin when Biden is in office!
* Speaker Mike Johnson's pork-filled spending bill, which he tried to ram through before Christmas recess, is now dead in the House. With any Luck, The government may shut down Tonight if no bill is passed!
* Johnson said in September that he has "no intention of going back" to the "terrible tradition" of a Christmas omnibus.
* Johnson promised (1) an open process (2) led by committee chairmen (3) that produced no giant omnibuses (4) that congressmen would have time to read.
* House Republicans have lost trust in Johnson, it will be hard to recover from.
* Sen. Mike Lee on 1,500-page continuing resolution: 'Christmastime legislative extortion'!
* Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee are calling for Elon Musk, who led the charge against Johnson's spending bill, to take over as House speaker during the upcoming Congress.
Lee has also floated Vivek Ramaswamy, co-head of DOGE, for the speakership role.
* Trump backs Johnson's new 116-page skinny CR following GOP pressure campaign.
* Shame On Donald: The biggest change was the addition of a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling, a demand that Mr. Trump abruptly issued on Wednesday.
* The debt limit is expected to be reached sometime in January, Many think it could be stretched into the spring -- and a failure to increase it would cause a default on the nation's debt.
* 38 Republicans vote to block Trump-backed funding bill.