Musk and Ramaswamy press House GOP to kill federal funding bill: Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?

House Speaker Mike Johnson might be in the DOGE house.Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday turned against House GOP leadership, raging about a stopgap measure to avert a government shutdown and actively encouraging rank-and-file Republicans to kill it.“This bill should not pass,” Musk bluntly posted on his X platform, later pondering “Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?” in reference to a photo of the legislative text.“It’s full of excessive spending, special interest giveaways & pork barrel politics.

If Congress wants to get serious about government efficiency, they should VOTE NO,” Ramaswamy added on X.“Congress has known about this deadline since they created it in late September.

There’s no reason why this couldn’t have gone through the standard process, instead of being rushed to a vote right before Congressmen want to go home for the holidays.The urgency is 100% manufactured.”Despite the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-chairs’ criticisms of the spending patch, which leadership unveiled Tuesday evening, Johnson (R-La.) insists the two moguls understand his predicament.“I was communicating with Elon last night.

Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together, and I was explaining to them the background of this,” Johnson recounted on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday of his talks with the co-chairs of DOGE, which is not a governmental entity.“Vivek and I talked last night about almost midnight, and he said, ‘Look, I get it.We understand you’re in an impossible position.

Everybody knows that.’”Congressional leaders need to take action to prevent a lapse or else face a government shutdown on Friday night.On Tuesday, they rolled out a continuing resolution that would fund the government through March 14, 2025.However, that 1,547-page continuing resolution, or CR, was chock-full of all sorts of add-ons such as $100 billion in disaster relief, a one-year extension of the far...