Elon Musk is fortunate that he can afford the more than three reams of paper needed to print the imposing 1, 547-page saving bill intended to keep the state operational through March.
” Always seen a bigger piece of pork”? Musk posted on X, with a picture of the enormous costs that was printed out and stacked over seven feet high.
Obviously, the government doesn’t keep the lights on without your tax money funding a new song tourism system, facilitating the restoration of RFK Memorial Stadium in Washington, D. C., or giving Congress a pay increase.
The act also includes a one-year expansion of the International Engagement Center, which has engaged in repression of liberal writers, as The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland originally reported.
Vivek Ramaswamy responded to the post, which Musk claimed he was reading the bill by saying,” This expenses if not pass.”
This suspicion could throw a damper on the dash to pass the bill on Friday, because Musk’s and Ramaswamy’s comments carry more weight today. When Donald Trump takes office as president-elect in January, Muss and Ramaswamy will assume the newly established Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ).
Any Republican who votes for this 1, 500 section of state waste will be added to the list of possible key targets, according to the standard DOGE accounts on X, giving a preference of what it will be like when DOGE is in action. Please spread this far and wide so that people know they have been legally warned.
The US’s drive over a financial cliff was prompted by DOGE, which was established to stop excessive spending. This bill contains precisely the kind of unnecessary spending that DOGE intends to eliminate, and soon Musk and Ramaswamy will set out to cut off extra money.
So why just add to the mess at this point? Weak, last-minute negotiations.
Speaker Mike Johnson promised a streamlined bill months ago, but now, just like in previous years, we are negotiating in crisis mode while the threat of a government shutdown is making important decisions.
Even though the public really wants Congress to finish its work on time, the public will be less afraid to take this bitter pill because it is public scaremongering. Truck drivers, food service workers, trash haulers, tax preparers, and everyone who works in the real world manages to meet deadlines every day. Why can’t Congress?
The bill will be up for vote on Friday after three days of reading it.
The Federalist’s Beth Brelje is a correspondent for elections. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
