A partial government shutdown loomed after President-elect Donald Trump told congressional Republicans to oppose a three-month continuing resolution.
As of Thursday morning, Speaker of the House Rep. Michael Johnson (R-La.) had not proposed an alternative to the three-month spending package Republicans published Monday, and which would if passed keep the government open through March 14.
The bill that Trump, who will be sworn in Jan. 20, urged Republicans to oppose would have kept the Department of Energy’s defense-nuclear programs funded at roughly their 2024 levels and added some funds to repair damage caused by summer hurricanes.
Trump called for a different bill after his ally Elon Musk, the billionaire industrialist, prolific social media poster and co-head of a non-governmental organization tasked by Trump with reducing federal spending, published many posts on his website, X, railing against the bill.
Vivek Ramaswamy, the other Trump-allied billionaire participating in the cost-cutting consultancy with Musk, joined in.
Federal agencies will partially shut down after Friday, when the current continuing resolution runs out.
