President-elect Donald Trump is “totally against” the proposed Continuing Resolution, a stopgap bill that would kick the legislative football into 2025 and avert a government shutdown before members of Congress leave the Capitol for the holidays.
Fox News host Lawrence B. Jones reported the president-elect’s feelings on the matter via X, saying, “I just spoke with the President-Elect @realDonaldTrump, and he is ‘totally against’ the proposed CR.”
I just spoke with the President-Elect @realDonaldTrump , and he is “totally against” the proposed CR.
— Lawrence Jones III (@LawrenceBJones3) December 18, 2024
A number in Trump’s orbit — including the Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will together head up Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — have panned the CR.
Ramaswamy made his thoughts known in a lengthy post, stating that he’d waited to…