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12:30 Report — Elon Musk tanks Congress’s funding plan
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It’s Thursday. It’s nice that some things in life are easily predicted. For example, there will always be an eleventh-hour panic over a potential end-of-the-year government shutdown. Here's the situation:
- The GOP is scrambling for plan B after Trump World tanked Johnson’s funding plan.
- Johnson’s Speakership role is hanging on by a thread.
- Fani Willis has been disqualified as prosecutor on the Trump Georgia election case.
- Russian astronauts are doing a spacewalk. Keep scrolling to watch it live.
I’m Cate Martel with a quick recap of the morning and what’s coming up. Send tips, commentary, feedback and cookie recipes to cmartel@thehill.com. Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Sign up here.
A NOTE TO READERS: Today is our editor-in-chief Bob Cusack’s last day at The Hill. He’s been here for more than 20 years and has done so much for us and our readers. We will all really miss him. Read his note to readers this morning.
⏱️ Government Funding
The CR can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Because it’s DEAD:
(I swear, there is always a perfect Taylor Swift lyric for these messes.)
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) bipartisan funding agreement to keep the government open past Friday died Wednesday, less than a day after it was unveiled.
How it went down: First, conservatives were furious over the add-ons stuffed into the bill. Then, tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk took to social media platform X — which he owns — to repeatedly bash the 1,547-page bill. And then, President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance torpedoed the bill Wednesday afternoon.
Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports that........
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