Apparently clearing the decks ain't as easy as it used to be...
E&E News (12/19/24) reports: "Disaster aid, agricultural assistance, a farm bill extension, water infrastructure grants and dozens of other environmental provisions in Congress’ sprawling government funding deal were teetering on the brink of collapse Wednesday night after President-elect Donald Trump and his allies worked to trash the bipartisan proposal. Less than 24 hours after congressional leaders released a stopgap funding bill that was loaded up with additional legislative priorities, business leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — some of Trump’s most outspoken and influential advisers — called on House leaders to scrap the bill in favor of a 'clean' continuing resolution without riders supported by Democrats. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance followed suit on the social media platform X, calling for congressional Republicans to allow a shutdown to begin this weekend if their eleventh-hour demands for a slimmed down CR were not met...The demands foiled House Republican leaders’ plan to pass the bipartisan CR as early as Wednesday evening, plunging the future of $100 billion in disaster funding, $10 billion in farm aid and myriad other riders on the package into uncertainty...Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.), who sponsored one of two bipartisan recycling-focused provisions that made it into the CR, predicted that even those would survive — even as Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) called them out on X."
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"At the expense of its residents, who are now paying the highest costs for electricity and fuels in the nation, California’s Governor Newsom remains oblivious to the other 8 billion on this planet that are dependent on the products and fuels from oil, the same oil for which there is no known replacement."
– Ronald Stein,
The Heartland Institute
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