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8:40 PM ET, December 19, 2024

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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The World's Richest Man Wants to Burn It All Down  —  Per NBC News, the Republicans who welcomed Elon Musk into their tent as a key decision-maker and thought leader are having an excellent time: … Happy Thursday.  —  The Kent Brockman Republicans  —  by William Kristol
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Where Things Stand  — House Republican leaders are offering a new proposal to avert a shutdown, a day after President-elect Donald J. Trump torpedoed a spending deal that House Speaker Mike Johnson had struck with Democrats.  The plan would tie an extension of government funding …
Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:
The Chaos Monkeys Have Already Taken Over the Zoo  —  The peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply  —  Well, I was going to post about proposals for bank deregulation, but I think that can wait for a bit.  The news of the moment is the looming prospect that the federal government will shut down over the weekend.
Politico:
GOP strikes a new spending deal  —  Republicans have struck a deal on a short-term government spending patch and potential debt limit increase, according to two GOP lawmakers meeting in Speaker Mike Johnson's office Thursday afternoon.  “There is an agreement,” said Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.).
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Musk's America … - A Trump source told us this is the new playbook: Republican lawmakers got “instant and overwhelming feedback. … You should never bet against Trump or Elon.”  — Now, the two are a combined force blanketing culture, media and governance.
NBC News:
Trump's demands leave Republicans flailing with no plan on eve of shutdown  —  GOP leaders have kept both chambers waiting as they privately discuss a Plan B after President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk torched their bipartisan funding deal.  —  WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson …
Garrett Haake / NBC News:
Trump calls for abolishing the debt ceiling  —  In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely would be the “smartest thing [Congress] could do.  I would support that entirely.”  —  President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Congress should get rid …
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Closures, Social Security checks, furloughs: What a government shutdown might mean  —  Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government or federal agencies will shut down, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be sent home — or stay on the job without pay — just ahead of the holidays.
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Trump team affirms he's leader of GOP amid ‘President Musk’ barbs  —  President-elect Trump's transition team pushed back against Democratic lawmakers who suggested Elon Musk is the “real leader” of the Republican Party after his aggressive pressure campaign against a stopgap spending measure.
Discussion: Associated Press
Politico:
Trump-backed funding bill fails as government shutdown looms  —  A bill to avert a government shutdown failed on the House floor Thursday night, after Democrats and conservatives rebelled against Speaker Mike Johnson's new Donald Trump-backed spending plan.  The measure went down decisively …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says Mike Johnson will ‘easily remain speaker’ if he acts ‘decisively and tough’ on spending bill
Politico:
Shutdown threatens ‘chaos’ for Trump's transition and inauguration
Discussion: USA Today
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
‘President Elon Musk!’ MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell And Dem Dan Goldman Taunt Trump Over Musk Taking Lead
Discussion: Twitchy and Raw Story
The Hill:
Musk floods X with spending bill misinformation
Discussion: Mediaite and Business Insider
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
New GOP Spending Plan Bombs In House Vote After Musk, Trump Torched Original Plan
Robert McCoy / New Republic:
MTG Suddenly Calls for Elon Musk to Take Over as House Speaker
USA Today:
‘President-elect Musk’: Elon's influence on display in government spending fight
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
GA appeals court disqualifies DA Fani Willis from Trump election case, lets indictment stand … A Georgia appeals court on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from overseeing the criminal election interference prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and other defendants.
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CNN:
Georgia appeals court disqualifies Fulton County DA Fani Willis from prosecuting Trump  —  A Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case against President-elect Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Prosecutor Fani Willis is removed from the Georgia election case against Trump and others
Wall Street Journal:
How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge  —  Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted.  The administration denied Biden has declined.  —  During the 2020 presidential primary …
Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump met for dinner at Mar-a-Lago, joined by Elon Musk  —  After feuds during Trump's first term, Trump and Bezos have both noted their recent evolving relationship.  —  President-elect Donald Trump had dinner Wednesday with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos …
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
How Liberal America Came to Its Senses … A decade ago, cultural norms in elite American institutions took a sharply illiberal turn.  Professors would get disciplined, journalists fired, ordinary people harassed by social-media mobs, over some decontextualized phrase or weaponized misunderstanding.
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Amazon Delivery Drivers at Seven Hubs Walk Out  —  The retail giant said it expected its operations to be largely unaffected by the strike of some drivers at contracting firms Amazon uses to deliver packages.  —  Workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across the country went …
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
GOP lawmakers prepare to carry out Gaetz's revenge, expose harassment settlements  —  Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the focus of a House Ethics Committee report that may soon become public, is planning to inflict fresh pain on some of his old colleagues.  A number of Republican lawmakers are preparing to help.
Discussion: Blaze Media
Politico:
Top aide to Eric Adams indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges  —  The aide's son and two developers were also charged.  —  NEW YORK — Prosecutors charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams' closest confidant in a conspiracy, bribery and money laundering case Thursday.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's new abortion case should be an easy win for Planned Parenthood  —  Although nothing is ever certain in this Supreme Court. … The question in Kerr is whether a federal law, which requires state Medicaid programs to guarantee that “any individual eligible for medical assistance” …
Dave Levinthal / Rolling Stone:
The NRA Is Selling Off Assets As It Bleeds Cash  —  The long-feared gun lobby was forced to liquidate most of its investment portfolio amid legal turmoil and declining membership revenue  —  WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is liquidating investments as it bleeds cash amid legal turmoil …
Discussion: Alternet.org
 
 
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