众议院共和党人和民主党之间为避免政府关门而协商的权宜支出计划在最后期限前两天遭到当选总统的谴责，似乎已经死亡唐纳德·特朗普和他的盟友埃隆·马斯克。
众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯说，议长迈克·约翰逊先前的计划已经完成，不会付诸表决。
约翰逊的原始计划要求将政府支出维持在目前水平，直到3月份，并增加了其他条款，如对灾民和农民的救济以及国会议员的加薪。
在周三下午的一份联合声明中，特朗普和当选副总统万斯(JD Vance)呼吁国会“通过一项精简的支出法案，该法案没有给(参议院多数党领袖)查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)和民主党人想要的一切。”
“共和党人必须变得聪明和强硬。如果民主党人威胁要关闭政府，除非我们给他们想要的一切，那就让他们虚张声势吧。是舒默和(乔·拜登总统)阻碍了对我们农民的援助和救灾，”特朗普和万斯说。
但周三晚些时候，特朗普威胁众议院中任何投票支持清洁法案的共和党人。
“任何愚蠢到这样做的共和党人都应该，也将会被初选，”他在自己的真实社交平台上发帖。“在我于2025年1月20日就职之前，一切都应该完成，并进行充分的谈判。”
在另一篇帖子中，特朗普还敦促共和党人在他上任前处理债务上限，称如果他们不这样做，“他将不得不与民主党人‘斗争’到最后”。"
"这是激进的左翼民主党人设置的一个肮脏的陷阱!"他写道。“他们想在6月份(债务上限)投票时让我们难堪。把它从9月28日延长到6月1日的人应该为自己感到羞耻。”
斯卡利斯周三晚上表示，共和党人正在制定一项新的持续决议，但尚未达成协议。
“仍有很多谈判和对话在进行，”他说。“目前没有新的协议。”
斯卡利斯表示，正如特朗普要求的那样，关于将提高债务上限与政府资助计划挂钩的“正在进行的对话”。
“我们已经就债务限额进行了一些对话，因为它与CR有关，”他说。
众议院周三晚上没有安排更多的投票，也不清楚何时会进行投票。议长迈克·约翰逊正在他的办公室里与议员和工作人员一起寻找前进的道路。
周三早些时候，马斯克公开反对该法案，甚至威胁投票支持它的立法者。
在X上发布“该法案不应通过”后，马斯克的言论升级，他警告说，“任何投票支持这一令人发指的支出法案的众议院或参议院成员都应该在2年内被淘汰!”
“请马上打电话给你选出的代表，告诉他们你的感受!他们试图在没有人关注的情况下通过这个法案，”他恳求他的2亿多粉丝。
他后来张贴“在1月20日@realDonaldTrump就职之前，国会不应通过任何法案。”
国会面临的最后期限是周五，届时当前的政府拨款延期将到期，政府将关门。
消息人士告诉ABC新闻，共和党领导人一直在讨论一项干净的短期资金法案，但具体细节尚不清楚。在此之前不到一天，共和党公布了立法文本，这是两党和两院制谈判的产物。
众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯暗示，民主党人不倾向于投票支持一项干净的法案。
“协议就是协议，”杰弗里斯告诉记者。
他说:“众议院共和党人被命令关闭政府，伤害这个国家的普通美国人。”。“众议院共和党人现在将承担因政府关闭或更糟而给美国人民带来的任何伤害。”
众议院议长·迈克·约翰逊在接受“福克斯”采访时被问及马斯克的帖子《老友记》周三早上。他似乎不担心马斯克的帖子会影响拨款法案在周五政府部分关闭的最后期限之前通过两院的能力。
“昨晚我在和埃隆沟通。Elon和Vivek(Ramaswamy)和我一起在一个短信链上，我向他们解释了这个的背景。Vivek和我昨晚谈到午夜，他说'看，我明白了'“他说，‘我们理解你处在一个不可能的位置，’”约翰逊说。
约翰逊说，政府效率部的两位领导人马斯克和拉马斯瓦米意识到议长在参议院和白宫的微弱多数和民主党控制下的艰难处境。总督是一个政府以外(或私人)的行动。
“我们必须完成这件事，因为这是关键。通过这样做，我们正在清理甲板，我们正在为特朗普带着美国第一议程咆哮而归做准备。这就是我们从1月3日新一届国会开始时满怀热情要做的事情。
约翰逊敦促国会通过这项拨款法案，“这样我们就不会关门。”
“我们到了3月，在那里我们可以在支出上留下我们的指纹。这是巨大变化的开始，”约翰逊说。
约翰逊的议长职位一直以回击来自极右翼的批评为特色，他最初承诺了一项干净的法案，该法案将只延长当前的政府资金水平，以防止政府关门。然而，自然灾害和农民的逆风，需要额外的联邦支出。
最终，该法案包括了1000亿美元的复苏资金飓风以及另外100亿美元用于对农民的经济援助。
约翰逊在新闻发布会上说，在“不可抗力”需要更多资金后，他无能为力。
他说:“这本来是，直到最近，也是一个非常简单、非常干净的(持续决议)，权宜的资金措施，让我们进入明年，届时我们将有一个统一的政府。”。“去年秋天，我们遭遇了巨大的飓风海伦和米尔顿，以及其他灾难。我们必须确保被飓风摧毁的美国人得到他们需要的救济。”
尽管如此，共和党的支出鹰派仍然叫嚣犯规，指责约翰逊在没有任何支付方式的情况下为法案增加新的支出，并闭门造车。
“我们根本不在乎支出。只要你有一张空白支票，你就不能缩小政府。如果你不能缩小政府，你就不能自由地生活，”得克萨斯州众议员奇普·罗伊说。
马斯克也嘲笑了账单的规模。
"见过比这更大的一块猪肉吗?"他发布于X，还有一张叠在桌子上的账单照片。
Government funding plan collapses after Trump issues demands
The stopgap spending plan negotiated between House Republicans and Democrats to avoid a government shutdown appears to be dead two days before the deadline after it was condemned by President-electDonald Trumpand his ally Elon Musk.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Speaker Mike Johnson's previous plan is done with and won't be brought to a vote.
Johnson's original plan called for extending government spending at current levels until March and added other provisions like relief for disaster victims and farmers and a pay raise for members of Congress.
In a joint statement Wednesday afternoon, Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance called on Congress to "pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want."
"Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and [President Joe] Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief," Trump and Vance said.
But later Wednesday evening, Trump threatened any Republican in the House who voted for a clean bill.
"Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried," he posted on his Truth Social platform. "Everything should be done, and fully negotiated, prior to my taking Office on January 20th, 2025."
In another post, Trump also pushed Republicans to deal with the debt limit before he takes office, saying if they don't, "he'll have to 'fight 'til the end' with Democrats."
"This is a nasty TRAP set in place by the Radical Left Democrats!" he wrote. "They are looking to embarrass us in June when [the debt limit] comes up for a Vote. The people that extended it, from September 28th to June 1st, should be ashamed of themselves."
Scalise said Wednesday night that Republicans were working on a new continuing resolution but haven't reached a deal.
"Still a lot of negotiations and conversations going on," he said. "There is no new agreement right now."
Scalise said there are "ongoing conversations" about linking raising the debt limit to a government funding plan, as Trump demanded.
"We've been having some conversations about debt limit as it relates to the CR," he said.
The House had no more votes scheduled Wednesday night and it was unclear when a vote might occur. Speaker Mike Johnson was huddling with members and staff in his office to find a path forward.
Earlier Wednesday, Muskcame out against the bill, going so far as to threaten lawmakers who vote for it.
After posting on X that "This bill should not pass," Musk escalated his rhetoric, warning that "any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!"
"Please call your elected representatives right away to tell them how you feel! They are trying to get this passed today while no one is paying attention," he implored his over 200 million followers.
He laterpostedthat "No bills should be passed Congress until Jan 20, when @realDonaldTrump takes office."
Congress faces a deadline of Friday, when the current government funding extension expires, for a shutdown.
Republican leaders have been discussing a clean short-term funding bill, but specifics are unclear, sources told ABC News. This comes less than a day after Republicans unveiled the legislative text that was the product of bipartisan and bicameral negotiations.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries signaled Democrats were not inclined to vote for a clean bill.
“An agreement is an agreement," Jeffries told reporters.
“House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government and hurt everyday Americans all across this country," he said. "House Republicans will now own any harm that is visited upon the American people that results from a government shutdown or worse."
House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked about Musk's post during an interview on "Fox& Friends" on Wednesday morning. He appeared to not worry about Musk's post influencing the ability of the funding bill to get through both chambers ahead of a partial government shutdown deadline at the end of the day Friday.
"I was communicating with Elon last night. Elon and Vivek [Ramaswamy] and I are on a text chain together and I was explaining to them the background of this. Vivek and I talked last night about midnight, and he said 'look I get it.' He said, 'We understand you're in an impossible position,'" Johnson said.
Johnson said Musk and Ramaswamy, the two DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) leaders, are aware of the tough spot the speaker is in with a slim majority and Democratic control of the Senate and White House. DOGE is an outside-of-government (or private) operation.
"We gotta get this done because here's the key. By doing this, we are clearing the decks, and we are setting up for Trump to come in roaring back with the American first agenda. That's what we are going to run with gusto beginning January 3 when we start the new Congress," he said.
Johnson urged for Congress to pass this funding bill "so we don't have a shutdown."
"We get to March where we can put our fingerprints on the spending. That is where the big changes start," Johnson said.
Johnson, whose speakership has been characterized by beating back criticism from his far-right flank, had originally promised a clean bill that would solely extend current levels of government funding to prevent a shutdown. However, natural disasters and headwinds for farmers, necessitated additional federal spending.
In the end, the bill included $100 billion for recovery efforts fromHurricanesHelene and Milton and another $10 billion for economic assistance for farmers.
Johnson at a press conference said his hands were tied after "acts of God" necessitated additional money.
"It was intended to be, and it was, until recent days, a very simple, very clean [continuing resolution], stopgap funding measure to get us into next year when we have unified government," he said. "We had these massive hurricanes in the late fall, Helene and Milton, and other disasters. We have to make sure that the Americans that were devastated by these hurricanes get the relief they need."
Still, Republican spending hawks cried foul, accusing Johnson of stocking the bill with new spending without any way to pay for it and keeping the bill's creation behind closed doors.
“We’re just fundamentally unserious about spending. And as long as you got a blank check, you can’t shrink the government. If you can’t shrink the government, you can’t live free," Texas Rep. Chip Roy said.
Musk, too, mocked the size of the bill.
"Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?" heposted on X, along with a picture of the bill stacked on a desk.
