House approves funding bill and sends to Senate hours before government shutdown deadline

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Trump, who has not yet been sworn into office, is showing the power but also the limits of his sway with Congress, as he intervenes and orchestrates affairs from Mar-a-Lago alongside Musk, who is heading up the incoming administration's new Department of Government Efficiency.
45% : He smiled and cocked his head at the response, adding: "President Trump?
38% : But the day's outcome was uncertain after Trump doubled down on his insistence that a debt ceiling increase be included in any deal -- if not, he said in an early morning post, let the closures "start now."
37% : The federal debt limit expires Jan. 1, and Trump doesn't want the first months of his new administration saddled with tough negotiations in Congress to lift the nation's borrowing capacity.
34% : "If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now," Trump posted early in the morning on social media.
32% : Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said it looked like Musk, an unelected official and the wealthiest man in the world, was calling the shots for Trump and the Republicans.
28% : Trump himself sparked the longest government shutdown in history in his first term at the White House, the monthlong closures over the 2018-19 Christmas holiday and New Year period.
18% : "Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling," Trump posted -- increasing his demand for a now five-year debt limit increase.
16% : President Joe Biden, in his final weeks in office, has played a less public role in the debate, drawing criticism from Trump and Republicans who are trying to shift the blame for any shutdown on him.
10% : Trump does not fear government shutdowns the way Johnson and the lawmakers see federal closures as political losers that harm the livelihoods of Americans.
9% : Trump and Musk unleashed their opposition -- and social media army -- on the original plan Johnson presented, which was a 1,500-page bipartisan compromise he struck with Democrats that included the disaster aid for hard hit states, but did not address the debt ceiling situation.

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