House passes last-minute funding bill to avert government shutdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "Following an order by President-elect Trump, yesterday 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," the White House said in an emailed statement.
39% : and that is why Donald Trump and Elon Musk demanded that the debt ceiling provision be placed into the bill at the eleventh hour.
34% : That effort has come out because that was all about Republicans trying to cut Social Security and Medicare while cutting taxes for the wealthy, they well-off, and the well-connected.
33% : The House was poised to pass an initial bipartisan proposal on Wednesday, until Trump and billionaire Elon Musk leapt into the fray and demanded Republicans not back the bill as it was written.
27% : Thirty-eight Republicans joined the majority of Democrats in voting it down, bucking Trump, Johnson and Musk.House lawmakers regrouped afterward, and Republicans came back with Friday's proposal to keep the government open.
18% : Democrats balked at the new proposal, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries made clear that Democrats would not bail Republicans out after Trump and Musk scuttled the original agreement.
12% : "Jeffries slammed Trump and Musk for torpedoing the initial agreement, telling reporters on Friday: "By trying to jam a debt ceiling suspension into the legislation at the eleventh hour was not sustainable.

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