According to a deep dive into how House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) managed to get most of his caucus and Donald Trump to agree on a budget package that kept the government working until March, the Washington Post is reporting that Johnson "blindsided" the president-elect by also negotiating with De...

Summary

House Speaker Mike Johnson angered both his Republican caucus and Donald Trump by negotiating a bipartisan budget deal with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown.

Trump, feeling “blindsided” and “furious,” reportedly encouraged Elon Musk to attack House leadership on X, leading to over 100 posts that derailed the deal temporarily.

While the budget ultimately passed with Democratic support, far-right Republicans were left fuming.

The incident highlights tensions within GOP leadership and Trump’s use of Musk to wield influence over congressional negotiations.

  • captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee
    491·
    23 hours ago

    Trump isn’t president yet. But still it’s a good sign that he can’t just use bully tactics to get what he wants.

    He has no negotiation skills. No real political capital. And he’s despised by most of the leaders who support him only transactionally. His only trick will be lies and threats and Elon’s propaganda site. So maybe he won’t be able to do as much damage as we feared.

    But what do I know. I thought he’d be in jail by now.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      48·
      23 hours ago

      But what do I know. I thought he’d be in jail by now.

      That’s what you get for having faith in what is an obviously broken system. I’m in my forties and it’s been broken since before I was born. Honestly, I get sick of people circlejerking the “founding fathers” because their constitution sucks shit. It was a broken system from the get-go, built to represent just rich land-owning white men. Literally this country was founded on “I’m rich and I hate being taxed, that’s for the poors.” Did anyone with a brain ever expect it to turn out any other way?

      I was in court recently and a lady was crying her eyes out, saying calling the cops was a mistake, because her partner was having a mental breakdown, and now her partner has charges, is in jail, and she is about to be evicted from her home because her partner was paying the bills.

      The prosecuting attorney leaps to the microphone to make a statement “I want to make clear that calling the cops is never a mistake.” He literally is flat out ignoring what actually happened and ignoring this woman’s feelings and just saying to her face “if you called them, no matter how bad it went, it wasn’t a mistake.” That’s the reality, is a lot of the people in this fucked up broken fucking system are perfectly fine with how it works and think it’s great that it all works this way. They are fine with ruining people’s lives as long as those people are powerless to fight it.

      Laws are only for the poors. What fucking fantasy world have you been living in?

    • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      23 hours ago

      He’s a fucking incompetent loser and he’s way more incoherent now than he was 8 years ago. He’s still very dangerous but there is a chance he just won’t be able to get things done.