Now that President (non-elect) Musk has blown up the carefully negotiated continuing resolution to keep the government open, VP-Elect Trump is doing is best to preserve what little power he has by imploring Democrats to get rid of the debt ceiling entirely.
Writing on his money laundering site Truth Social site, Trump called for Democrats to end the “mess of the debt limit” entirely for his four years.
If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat “bells and whistles” that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration. Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried. Everything should be done, and fully negotiated, prior to my taking Office on January 20th, 2025.
So to be clear, nothing can be done in the House without some Democrats. And even Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez aren’t going to raise the debt limit for 4 years because Trump said so.
There is absolutely no way to negotiate a four-year budget anyway, so that’s just stupid. But if Trump truly doesn’t want to deal with the debt limit, which is an artificial construct Republicans use as a cudgel to beat Democrats into submission over their shitty poison pill budget items, then by all means, let’s accommodate that.
Democrats should, with one strong voice, agree to Trump’s terms and just eliminate the debt ceiling entirely forever and ever. No president ever again will be plagued with the Republican reindeer games to shut down government over stupid riders in a budget bill.
President Musk will not like this, which is why our current President (who has remained weirdly silent about Musk usurping the presidency) should absolutely grant Trump’s request.
It would be a little Christmas miracle.
