Peloni: The Swamp is looking to take one last great bite at the apple before Trump’s reformers take center stage. Trump has called on Republican to “GET SMART and TOUGH” and oppose this legislation.
Julianna Frieman | Daily Caller |
Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to create a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), sounded the alarm Wednesday over the Republican-led House’s federal funding bill.
House Speaker Mike Johnson released the full text Tuesday of the 1,547-page continuing resolution (CR) that would fund the federal government until March 14, 2025. The incoming Trump administration’s cost-cutting bulldogs took to social media to rally against the bill, urging members of Congress to read its contents like they did before casting their votes.
Ramaswamy slammed the legislation as debt-fueled spending comparable to “showering cocaine on an addict.”
“This bill should not pass,” Musk said.
“Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?” he asked on X at 4:17 a.m., sharing a photo of the bill printed out as a stack of papers atop a desk.
Musk made dozens of posts railing against the “terrible” federal funding bill, encouraging his 207.7 million followers to call their elected representatives. He also said Congress should not pass any legislation until Trump is in office.
Musk warned that the legislation would fund at least 12 biocontainment laboratories. The text would task these labs with research on “biological agents, including emergency infectious diseases.”
He highlighted that it would also fund the alleged censorship of conservatives through providing a one-year extension to the Global Engagement Center (GEC).
Through the GEC, the U.S. State Department helped fund the Global Disinformation Index, which reportedly crafted a blacklist of conservative media outlets advertisers then used to demonetize their websites.
“The more I learn, the more obvious it becomes that this spending bill is a crime,” Musk wrote. “It even includes funding for the worst illegal censorship operation in the entire government (GEC)!!”
Ramaswamy wrote a lengthy explanation as to why lawmakers should “VOTE NO,” saying that Congress’ “urgency is 100% manufactured and designed to avoid serious debate.”
The DOGE co-leader said members of Congress knew about the Friday night deadline as “they created it in late September,” adding that the bill could have only been 20 pages long.
“We’re grateful for DOGE’s warm reception on Capitol Hill,” Ramaswamy wrote. “This is an early test. The bill should fail.”
Musk claimed the bill was “dead” at 3:58 p.m. Shortly before, Fox News host Lawrence Jones III said Trump told him he was “totally against” the legislation. JD Vance released a joint statement from him and Trump reiterating the president-elect’s opposition to the bill.
“If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF,” the statement read.
Through DOGE, Ramaswamy and Musk were tasked to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure Federal Agencies,” according to Trump’s statement announcing the initiative.
With a deadline of July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the U.S., Trump’s DOGE duo must “drive large scale and structural reform” in the federal bureaucracy.
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Thank you for this very timely article. I am appalled that Johnson brought it to the floor for a vote. Remember that a year ago last November, Johnson received 95K from a lobbying company and then proceeded to give Biden everything he wanted. Johnson never fought to close the border. His voting record is consistently poor. He only votes with the Constitution 60% of the time, which doesn’t say much for his so-called conservatism.
Michael S is so right about saving us from the likes of Mike Johnson. Thomas Massie said he will NOT vote for Johnson again.
God save us from the likes of Mike Johnson.