Democrats are acting out of desperation.
Multiple Republicans have accused Democrats of letting their hatred of billionaire and Trump senior adviser Elon Musk interfere with their official duties as a government shutdown looms.
Democrat officials panned the House GOP proposal unveiled over the weekend, arguing it would erode Congress’s power of the purse and give President Trump and Musk a blank check to redirect government funding and eliminate long-standing programs.
“They hate Elon Musk and Donald Trump more than they love their country,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) told Fox News. “They’re just losing their f—— minds.”
Mace was still optimistic that some Democrat lawmakers will cross the aisle for the legislation on Tuesday afternoon, “I mean, they voted for every CR under the sun when [former President Joe Biden] was president. That’s what this is — it’s just political games.”
Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.) told Fox News, “It’s either [President Donald Trump] or Elon Musk or a combination thereof, right?”
“They’ve had nothing but political losses from November forward. Last week was the worst political loss I think they’ve suffered in a long time,” Crank said, referring to Democrats’ intra-party divisions over some lawmakers’ disruptions during Trump’s speech to Congress. “I guess they’ve got to keep fighting, but what they should do is the right thing: Keep the government open.”
Democrats have held Musk up as a political boogeyman and have widely opposed his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) told Fox News that Musk is “doing damage to our government” but denied his work being a factor in his likely decision to oppose the funding bill.
“Musk doesn’t live rent-free in my head,” Crow said. “I’m not making legislative decisions based upon Elon Musk and what he does and doesn’t do in any given day… I’m focusing on my constituents.”
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) wrote on X, “Trump and Musk are illegally shutting down federal agencies, mass firing federal workers, and freezing congressionally mandated funding. It’s causing massive job losses and economic chaos for my constituents, and the Republican CR would continue this disaster. I will vote no.”
“It takes away veterans’ healthcare. It takes away critical research funding. Those are the things that House Republicans are willing to do just to give Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s friends continued tax breaks. That’s unacceptable to House Democrats,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., told reporters on Monday.
While Democrat lawmakers normally vote in droves to avert a government shutdown, this round it’s likely House Republicans will need to share the burden largely on their own.
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It’s come time for all red states to leave the union I can see by the way democrats are acting that soon they will start another civil war
So what’s the deal with this report? So much is at risk after Musk’s activities how much more damage can be done by a shutdown? When’s the GOP going to learn to govern instead of create crises?
At risk because Elon is uncovering major wastes? Continuing wasteful spending is absurd. Are you against exposing this? A good government cuts waste which, by the way is what they are doing. Creating crises is what we are hearing from the democrats.
Their #1 priority should be the solemn oath that they all gave to the US Constitution and that means ONLY the powers and federal agencies that the Constitution provides authorization for! The ONLY valid and acceptable meanings and definition of words and phrase in the Constitution and amendments to the Constitution are those that were present when THE WORDS were written, any modern definition or usage is irrelevant and patently unconstitutional. Languages drift over time in word meaning and usage and the English language is a prime example of that, any meanings other that what was in use when written are irrelevant.
Such ignorance from the ignorant dems. Kind of sad really. They have no cards and are really showing what poor losers they are.
The snifling democrats don’t have a clue what they are doing. What they are doing tells all of us that they have unbridled hate that they cannot control.
If Trump invented a universal cure for cancer, the Democrats would condemn him for putting doctors out of a job.