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On this vote, the yeas are 174, the nays are 235, one voting present, two-thirds not being in the affirmative, the rules are not suspended, and the bill is not passed.
Utterly humiliating for Donald Trump and Elon Musk right there as 38 Republicans voted against the Trump, Musk, and Maga Mike Johnson Frankensteinian bill that replaced the a bipartisan agreement to stop the government shutdown. You saw it there. That was the moment where 38 Republicans stood up and said, you are not bullying us, Elon Musk and Donald Trump. The bill failed 174 to 235.
Now, you remember the sequence of events right here? There was a continuing resolution that was agreed to by Democrats and Republicans. Then Elon Musk started posting yesterday, kill the bill with samurai swords. He called the bill criminal. He said that anybody supports it is going to be primary.
Then Trump swooped in and said, look, we could only support a continuing resolution to stop a government shutdown if Trump the debt ceiling is abolished.
So Donald Trump and all the MAGA Republicans who previously said that the debt ceiling should not be raised when President Biden was trying to raise it and then a deal had to be struck with Kevin McCarthy are now saying not only should the debt ceiling be raised, they're basically saying the whole concept of the debt ceiling should be abolished. And so even MAGA Republicans like Chip Royer, like
So wait a minute, this whole Doge thing about reducing the deficit and cutting back on debt. So the MAGA Republican plan was to kill a bipartisan continuing resolution and to change it based on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's request, something that was going to increase the debt immediately by $5 trillion.
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