➡ The article discusses a controversial budget deal, with some Republicans, including Byron Donalds and House Speaker Mike Johnson, expressing their dissatisfaction. They argue that the bill includes unnecessary spending and is being used to push through unwanted mandates. They suggest that the bill is being used to benefit certain groups at the expense of others, such as farmers and those affected by natural disasters. The article also mentions that some believe the budget should be reevaluated when President Trump takes office, rather than being rushed through now.
➡ Speaker Mike Johnson discussed a government spending bill, expressing his disapproval of the current spending and the potential for a government shutdown. He emphasized the need to shrink government and control spending. Despite disagreements among Republicans, he defended the bill as a short-term solution until March, when he expects Republicans to control Congress and the White House. He also highlighted the need for emergency funding for disaster relief and support for farmers.
➡ The speaker suggests that the Democrats should support a temporary funding measure for the government, instead of insisting on a full budget. They believe that the Democrats are still upset about Trump’s victory and this is affecting their decision-making. The speaker urges the Democrats to cooperate and fix the issues, stating that the American people want a long-term solution and would appreciate their efforts.

We got to get to the Republican side to get their insight. This is Byron Donalds and then we’re going to go over to House Speaker Mike Johnson to get their perspective of what’s going on with this budget deal. Make sure I hit a like for the algorithm. Subscribe to the channel and turn on your notification. Let’s get it popping. I said, what is going on here? I knew immediately it was from you. I knew immediately it was from you. Shout out to my dog. Let me give a round of applause for Class E.B.S. All of this good equipment.

I didn’t even know that you was buying all of this good equipment. This is why people love me. People show love to Tom Dogg and I show love back. Shout out to Class E.B.S. and make sure y’all go and check out his platform. He puts on a phenomenal show also. Thank you, Class E. I was communicating with Elon last night. He said, we understand you’re in an impossible position. Everybody knows that. Remember, guys, we still have just a razor-thin margin of Republicans. So any bill has to have Democrat votes. They understand the situation. They said, it’s not directed to you, Mr.

Speaker, but we don’t like the spending. Come on in, member of the House Financial Services Committee, Byron Donnells. Congressman, this bill will fund much of what Doge is looking to cut. What’s going on? Unfortunately, this is what happens in the lame duck here on Capitol Hill. Listen, there was a historic election, a mandate given to President Trump. People want government efficiencies. They want lower spending. But the swamp and frankly, congressional Democrats want what they want. And it was it was that or farmers suffer. And it’s a very unfortunate bill. Listen, what we have here is a bill that puts disaster recovery for a state like mine of Florida and many other states.

And that was held hostage to get E.V. mandates and all this other stuff through this package. Personally, as a member, I have to vote no, because I’m not voting for this kind of garbage. This is a bad bill. It should not pass. Elon Musk is correct. A lot of my colleagues are correct. In my view, we should go back to the drawing board immediately. Disaster recovery should move on its own. And when it comes to the other functions of government, it should be a slim deal until Donald Trump comes back. That’s what they tried to do back in late last 2023, when they tried to shove through the border deal that Trump that that Kamala Harris kept saying that Trump killed.

They tried to package it in with a bunch of other bloatware. And that’s how they shove a lot of this stuff in. And while you see such huge government bills, even though we’re not getting representation the way that we supposed to. And so what they’ll do is they’ll say, well, wait a minute, we got to get $50 billion over the Ukraine. We got to give $9 billion over the Taiwan. But if you don’t give it to us, then we don’t let the farmer suffer or we don’t let the people that is affected by the hurricane suffer.

We don’t let disaster relief suffer. So then what they’ll do is they’ll come back like Hakeem Jeffries and they’ll say, see what they’re doing. They’re holding up funding for the farmers. They’re holding up thunder for funding for disaster relief. They’re holding up from they’re holding you over a barrel. I can’t believe that they’re going to let you suffer. But the right hand don’t know what the left hand is doing and the left hand don’t know what the right hand is doing. And so this is what they present in the yard like this. But really, they got a whole bunch of bloatware inside of this hand.

And that’s how they get their friends paid. They got their friends getting paid and catching all of the billions and the trillions of dollars. And they continuing to push through these E.V. mandates, even though they know that people don’t want E.V. mandates and they want the option to be able to choose for themselves. And they’ll push all of that stuff through and then try to pretend like, oh, man, wait a minute, wait a minute, it’s the fact that they don’t want to help the American people. They want to see you suffer. No, they don’t want to keep kicking the can down the road and they want to actually get to the thing that’s killing American jobs and killing the American economy.

Then if you vote, no. I mean, if it goes down the defeat amongst Republicans, then you’re going to have to have Democrats to pass it and keep the government going. That is likely to happen. How do you feel about that? That’s something I just simply don’t like, but I would say it’s up to the members of my conference of Republicans because there was a mandate delivered in this election. And it was not for business as usual. It was actually to trim spending, to cut spending as it needs to be cut, to have the government be more efficient, to not fund or do extensions, to institutions that have been suppressing free speech that is, frankly, are now being sued by conservative media groups for suppressing free speech.

The election was clear. The mandate is decisive. So it is incumbent upon us. If it means we have to come back after Christmas to clean this up, then that’s what needs to happen. But doing this before Christmas is not the answer. But do you think this is what Donald Trump wants? I mean, he’s about to get into the Oval Office on January the 20th. Does he want a government shutdown and this big, big fight over what’s spending and what’s not being spent right before he assumes the Oval Office? Well, honestly, I think with President Trump, he’s focused on his presidency, which starts on January 20th.

What this is, is cleaning up the last days of the worst administration we have ever seen with Joe Biden. And that’s why my position for months has been, we shouldn’t even be negotiating with Joe Biden. I don’t think, listen, listen, let’s be honest. Byron Donalds smartly and wisely, strategically, let’s just be 100% honest. I’m gonna be real with y’all. And I love Byron Donalds. And I think that Byron Donalds is right on 100% of what he’s saying, but he sidestepped the question purposely. And he side-ed the question because he doesn’t want to answer for what it is that Trump is doing.

And I 100% agree with Trump also, but this is what Trump is doing. Trump is saying that I don’t want to inherit a trash budget that we can’t fix until 2026. We have a mandate from the American people that says that they want us to fix what has been broken over the last four years. And they want us to fix it finally and strategically, and they want it to be right. You’re not going to pass a budget that is absolute trash. I think that Trump would have rolled with it if it wasn’t so much trash that was in it.

If it wasn’t so egregious, Trump would have rolled with it. But until then, Trump don’t want to come in on January 20th. What a bad budget bill that’s already passed that they can’t fix until 2026 or late 2025, early 2026. So what he did was he said, listen, this thing is so bad and it is. And just because it’s a bipartisan deal does not mean that it makes sense. Either y’all can pass a temporary measure to temporarily keep the government open, which they’ve been doing for year after year after year. So it’s no different here. Either y’all can pass a temporary measure and keep this government open for the next 30 to 60 to 90 days.

And then we’re going to come in and do the real work of what the people want. But y’all not going to saddle me with this trash budget that I can’t solve for. And then you’re going to try to hang it on my head and hang this economy on my head when we told the people that we was going to actually fix it. And so we absolutely made phone calls. And he said we’re going to kill this deal, especially after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami decided that they want to chime in and said that it was a trash budget.

And it is. It’s a trash budget. And you’re not going to saddle us with it for the next year. We all know he’s not running the country right now. Let’s be perfectly honest. We should not even be negotiating with him. We should be figuring out what is passable going forward. And that is all no more no less. And the most and the most tragic thing is is that you have family farms and in areas that have been ravaged with natural disaster are being used as pawns to get through the same Christmas omnibus that not not just members here hate but the American people despise.

That’s the frustration that Elon Musk has said. That’s my frustration. A lot of my colleagues on Capitol Hill. But we’ll see what happens. All right. So let’s go over to Speaker Mike Johnson and see what he has to say about it. He appeared on Fox News also. It’s a total dumpster fire. I think it’s garbage. I think that it’s shameful that people that celebrate Doge coming in. I can’t. And yet we’re going to vote for another billion dollars to be added to the deficit. And so it’s ironic. It’s opposite what the Doge Commission is trying to do.

So am I voting for it? No, I’m not. We’re just fundamentally unserious about spending. And as long as you got a blank check, you can’t shrink government. If you can’t shrink government, you can’t live free. Well, you got some Republicans on Capitol Hill calling it a Christmas present. Americans shouldn’t want others call it a dumpster fire as the House tries hammering out a deal to fund a government spending bill and avoid the Friday midnight shutdown. The government is going to shut down. It’s going to shut down and workers is going to be temporarily furloughed. And it just is what it is.

I’m just telling you right now, they’re not going to get a deal done. In my opinion, I could be wrong. And if I’m wrong, I’ll come back and say that I was off on it. But they’re not going to get a deal done before Friday night. They’re not. They’re not the best you can hope for is some temporary extension to where they allow themselves to fund the government for the next step. It’s 30 to 60 days, 30, 60, 90 days while they continue to negotiate and they get a whole new slate of legislators in there to where Republicans basically control the Congress and control all three houses.

But they’re not going to get a deal done. If you are a government worker, go ahead and buckle up. Buttercup is coming. It’s not going to get a deal done by Friday night. Then they shouldn’t wait it this long in order to present this so that things would go as bad as it’s going in the first place. So will it pass? It got 72 hours. House Speaker Mike Johnson joins us now. Mr. Speaker, you expected some blowback when you were putting this together as you try to get across the finish line and have the government pay for itself up until March.

What could you tell us about this bill and does it disturb you? Some Republicans seem to be very critical of it. No, look, there’s three of my great friends you just quoted there. They’re not wrong about the government debt and deficits. It bothers us all. We’ve got it in our central focus. And when we start the new Congress in January when Republicans are in control and doges on working on all six cylinders, we’re going to be able to scale back the size and scope of government. But before we get to that point, remember, right now we only control one half of one third of the federal government.

Remember, Democrats are still in charge of the Senate and the White House. So what we’ve done is the conservative play call here, my friends that you just interviewed there or that those clips were played were part of this decision. We decided, even though we don’t normally like short term stop get funding measures, it made sense here. Instead of doing, you know, Chuck Schumer and Biden spending for 2025, we pushed this decision into March. It’ll be March 14th. So the feature there is that we’ll have Republican controlled Congress and Trump back in the White House. And we get to decide spending for 2025.

That was a good thing. Mr. Speaker, I think the confusing part is because typically when there is objection to bills like that, you hear the Freedom Caucus, which you heard Chipper Roy. But you even have moderate members who are in big races. You got Mike Lawler, who is not, you know, an extreme, you know, fiscal conservative. But he’s saying the same thing. So how did you lose the Freedom Caucus and the moderate members? This is the sausage making process. OK, here’s here’s what this bill entails. It’s a short term funding extension until March 14.

And that would have been an easy thing relatively to pass. But here’s what happened. We also had to add, and due to circumstances outside of any of our control, emergency funding. We have two major emergencies. We had a record historic hurricane season that we all know, Helene and Milton and the rest, that destroyed a big swath of the country. We have to have funding for that. That’s a hundred billion dollars to rebuild six states. And then on top of that, we have our farmers, our small farmers and ranchers, our food producers in this country, are in jeopardy of going under permanently.

They’ve had three lost years in a row, primarily because of Bidenomics and inflation and lots of other factors outside their control. So for the first time since I’ve been in Congress, guys, in eight years, it’s not just farmers and ranchers urgently needing the help. We now have the creditors, the lenders, the banks, who give them those loans, who are saying we have to have a stopgap measure. So when you add those things in, here’s the other thing to remember. Our Democrat colleagues, who have to vote on all this, they don’t prioritize agriculture. They don’t really care that much about farmers and ranchers because they’re in rural red districts, right? But that’s our food supply.

If we crush domestic food supply, that is a direct threat to national security. We need all those small farmers and ranchers, and that’s included in the bill as well. So when you add all those things together, that’s what makes people nervous because of the pricing. You really don’t have a choice. We have to fund those. We have to fund FEMA. We have to fund our farmers. Right. And Mr. Speaker, it’s not just… So you’ve got a bunch of Republicans who are angry at you. They don’t like this. And just in a couple weeks, you’re going to stand, once again, to run for Speaker of the House.

And you don’t need a bunch of Democrats mad at you. But you know, and this is breaking news, you do not know, you know who also does not like this? Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, just tweeted, this bill should not pass. The only way you’re going to be able to pass it now, Mr. Speaker, is with Democrats. If you could, what’s your message to Elon Musk? Well, I was communicating with Elon last night. Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together. And I was explaining to them the background of this.

And Vivek and I talked last night about almost midnight. And he said, look, I get it. And he said, we understand you’re in an impossible position. Everybody knows that. Remember, guys, we still have just a razor-thin margin of Republicans. So any bill has to have Democrat votes. They understand the situation. They said, it’s not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don’t like the spending. And I said, guess what, fellas? I don’t either. We’ve got to get this done because here’s the key. By doing this, we are clearing the decks. And we are setting up for Trump to come in roaring back with the America First agenda.

That’s what we’re going to run with gusto beginning January 3rd when we start the new Congress when Republicans, again, are in control. And all of our fiscal conservative friends, I’m one of them, will be able to finally do the things that we have been wanting to do for the last couple of years. Right now, Democrats still control Pence. And that’s the problem. Hey, talk about a flex. You know what? After he just said that, I realize I need a better text group. I need new text groups. He said, listen, this is what Elon Musk just tweeted.

He said, yeah, you know what? Me and him have a vague. We was all in a text group chat. Yo, I need a new text. I need a new text group. Maybe I’ll participate more if I had more serious friends that decided that they actually wanted to participate in the text group. He said, listen, we already been talking. We already been having a conversation. He said, yeah, Vivek said, and Elon said, before they even texted, y’all already knew what the play was. So we already working together. DJA said, Anton, you don’t tell. I would if I had a text thread with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami.

I would text a little bit different. But I mean, he’s absolutely right if you just break it down. I think that one of the things that’s going to make this presidency so great is that everybody is playing a role and everybody, nobody is trying to step out of line and everybody, everybody eating, everybody going to grow, everybody going to get it, everybody going to become successful. The American people is going to prosper as a result of it. But everybody that’s in these legislative branches, they are working together. They are not working against each other.

And that’s basically what Mike Johnson is saying. He said, listen, if we put a stopgap measure together that allows for us to continue to fund the government up through this particular time frame, then we can come back and then really take care of business and take care of things. But that’s not what the Democrats want and anything that we do is going to have to have Democrat support. So if that be the case, if they’re saying that we’re going to have to shove this thing through an entire budget instead of a stopgap measure until we really get something done, then we’re just going to have to shut the federal government down.

And the American people have voted. And this is one of the things that we were talking about aside of our group chat, the American people have voted. And they said, listen, we want to fix this thing once and for all. And we don’t want to continue to shove through that trash that we’ve been dealing with over the last four years. We want to fix it. And if your Democrat legislators actually cared about y’all, they would get on board and fix things. I think that the smartest thing for the Democrats to do, honestly, to be honest with you, I think that the smartest thing for Democrats to do would be to get on board and make sure that they got things together.

But I don’t think that that’s what’s going to happen. I think that they are absolutely still butthurt at the fact that Trump won and that’s what you’re going to see them start to take it out on. Listen, you guys are in shambles. Y’all are in trouble. You can’t fix this by continuing to be butthurt. And you need to get on board. I think the American people will actually reward y’all if y’all did the right thing instead of still trying to stand on business on these dumb things. [tr:trw].

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