Trump Says He Opposes Stopgap Government Funding Bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Together, Musk and Ramaswamy will head an organization called the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, a loosely organized, tech-fueled effort to curtail in federal spending.
51% : Most Read from BloombergTrump on Wednesday -- just days before federal funding is set to expire -- said he wanted lawmakers to include an increase to the debt ceiling in the package, a politically fraught measure that would allow the Treasury Department to issue new debt to pay existing obligations.
39% : Trump and Vance called for a "streamlined" federal funding bill, asking Congress to pare back a package that largely provides for the government to continue to spend at current levels for the next three months.
39% : The stopgap spending bill released Tuesday night was quickly met with resistance from the two men whom Trump has appointed to rein in government spending: Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
38% : During his first term, Trump presided over two government shutdowns -- one lasting a record 35 days in a post-election period following the 2018 midterm elections.
37% : Trump told "Fox and Friends" co-host Lawrence Jones that he believed the "fight starts now" rather than waiting until he was sworn in, Lawrence said in an additional post.
35% : "Trump can't veto the bill; he won't be president for another month.
22% : Trump panned that provision in a social media post on Wednesday, saying "this is not a good time for Congress to be asking for pay increases.
21% : but we'd rather do it on Biden's watch," Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance said in a joint statement Wednesday.
11% : "Trump in a social media post on Wednesday evening said he wanted to raise the debt limit under President Joe Biden's watch, rather than after he takes office, adding that any Republican who doesn't want to vote to raise the federal borrowing limit in this funding package is "stupid" and "should, and will, be Primaried.

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