House narrowly averts government shutdown -- and rejects Trump's debt ceiling commands

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "He knew exactly what we were doing and why, and this is a good outcome for the country," he said of his conversations with Trump.
62% : Johnson told reporters Friday he was "in constant contact" with Trump and spoke with Musk an hour before the vote.
57% : A slimmer 118-page measure covers a bulk of government funding, disaster relief and payments to farmers, but the bill removed pediatric cancer research, funding for community health centers, and prescription drug reform, among other measures.
44% : ""Following an order by President-elect Trump ... Republicans walked away from a bipartisan deal and threatened to shut down the government at the 11th hour in order to pave the way to provide tax breaks for billionaires.
18% : A bill to fund the government through mid-March marked a third attempt within two days to avert a shutdown, after Donald Trump and Elon Musk commanded Congress to ditch the original bipartisan framework and left congressional Democrats and even some Republicans exhausted with the growing political influence of the world's wealthiest person.

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