President-elect Donald Trump has indicated that President Joe Biden will be responsible for a government shutdown if Democratic lawmakers refuse to accept the Republican funding bill.
“If there is to be a government shutdown, it should start now under the Biden administration, not under the 'Trump' administration after January 20th,” he posted on Truth Social on Friday morning.
“This is a problem for Biden to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!”
The post came after a second spending bill failed to pass the House Thursday night.
Many of the 38 Republican no votes were in protest of House Speaker Mike Johnson continuing to lead the session, multiple sources told Breitbart News' Bradley Jay.
President Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance came forward Wednesday afternoon to push a final gamble on the heart of an earlier agreement negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democrats. Support for the deal quickly surged before Trump took action to reframe the debate, arguing that the next Congress should have included a debt ceiling increase to take this difficult issue off his administration's agenda. It was getting worse.
The new agreement removed more than 1,000 pages of pork and other provisions unrelated to keeping the government open.
As a result, only two Democrats supported it, one voted, and 11 did not vote.
As reported by Breitbart News, Prime Minister Johnson told reporters Friday morning that he has a third plan and plans to hold a membership vote on Friday.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. He is the author of The Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
