US Congress has two days to avert shutdown after Trump rejects spending bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : It does not cover benefit programs like Social Security, which continue automatically.
41% : Trump said Congress should limit the bill to temporary spending and disaster relief and also raise the national debt ceiling now before it comes to a head next year.
35% : Trump is now calling on Congress to pass legislation that would tie up loose ends before he takes office next month by raising the government's borrowing authority - a politically difficult task - and extending government funding.
33% : "Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
31% : The White House of Democratic President Joe Biden, who remains in power until Trump takes office on Jan. 20, said on Wednesday that "Republicans need to stop playing politics" and that a government shutdown will be damaging.
28% : Trump warned that Republicans who vote for the current legislative package could have trouble getting re-elected because they will face primary challenges inside their own party.
26% : Trump pressured his fellow Republicans in Congress to reject a stopgap bill to keep the government funded past the deadline of midnight on Friday.
26% : Trump's comments came after his ally Elon Musk, who has been tasked by Trump to prune the federal budget, pressured Congress to reject the bill and said those who back it should be voted out of office.

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