Trump Backs House GOP Plan to Fund Government, Delay Debt Limit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump, who had pressured GOP lawmakers to abandon an earlier bipartisan agreement, lauded the package as a "very good Deal for the American People" on Truth Social.
61% : On Thursday, Trump told NBC News that abolishing the debt ceiling entirely would be the "smartest thing" lawmakers could do.
52% : Government funding will lapse Friday night without congressional action.
48% : The House speaker's perilous standing was underscored Thursday morning, when Trump told Fox News that the Louisiana Republican could "easily remain speaker" -- if he "acts decisively and tough" to eliminate "traps" being set by Democrats.
38% : The speaker huddled with other House Republicans in his office much of Wednesday evening and during the day Thursday trying to work out a temporary funding plan that Trump would accept, as they closed in on the shutdown deadline.
29% : Trump insisted Johnson secure an increase in or elimination of the national debt limit, a politically fraught step that the incoming president would otherwise have to address by summer.
28% : "My position is simple - I am not going to raise or suspend the debt ceiling (racking up more debt) without significant & real spending cuts attached to it," Representative Chip Roy, a hardline conservative from Texas, said in a social media post.House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries earlier in the day also expressed opposition, denouncing the debt limit maneuver as a ploy by Trump to advance his tax agenda next year to the benefit of corporations and wealthy Americans.
25% : Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a key adviser to Trump, had savaged Johnson's earlier deal in a daylong series of social media posts Wednesday, rousing his followers against the bill and declaring that any lawmaker who supported it should be defeated in the next election.
20% : But the bill included more than $100 billion in disaster aid and had other sweeteners, such as a pay raise for lawmakers, drawing the ire of Musk, who Trump has named to lead an advisory Department of Government Efficiency to bring major expenditure cuts.
10% : Trump late Wednesday afternoon demanded House Speaker Mike Johnson abandon a deal he previously worked out with Democratic congressional leaders to avoid a government shutdown before the holidays.

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