David Marcus: Saving America from a bad spending bill is exactly why Trump chose Musk.

Former President Obama famously said, “Elections have consequences,” and one of the consequences of the 2024 election is President-elect Donald Trump asking Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to help him Collate government accounts.

Now, just days before Christmas, as the hourglass of the 118th Congress runs out and Democrats remain in power, the United States is facing a federal government shutdown, all because of Musk’s revelations about the Proposed bloated spending.

National Debt Tracker: U.S. taxpayers 9YOU0 face $36,167,604,149,955.61 as of December 19, 2024

“We got a deal!” Democrats complained. What they do have is a horrific, pork-filled, censorship-heavy, 1,500-page, lengthy disastrous bill that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson should never have agreed to in the first place.

The continuing resolution Congress is working to pass is intended to keep the lights on until March, when a new Republican-controlled Senate takes office and Trump takes office in the White House. Instead, as Musk rightly points out, we have, if not a comprehensive bus bill, at least an all-in minivan bill, bloated to the limit.

In Washington, the path of least resistance is typically the one where Republicans believe they can capitulate to Biden’s last big spending plan before Trump takes office. But that’s when Musk and Ramaswamy stepped in.

On Wednesday, just hours before the House was scheduled to vote, Musk began posting X number of posts roughly every 30 seconds or so, denouncing the congressional pay raises hidden in the bill, as well as funding for the Center for Global Engagement, as a hoax that censored conservatives and Plenty of other pork action.

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Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy talked about the termination of “Title 42” of the emergency border agreement in an interview with Fox News Digital Channel. (Fox News)

Every House Democrat voted against the bill Thursday night, along with 38 die-hard opponents in the Republican caucus.

First, for die-hard Republicans, let’s take Rep. Chip Roy as an example. Congress votes on the “Save Chip Roy’s Life” bill if he is dying, and congressmen from Texas will firmly reject it without spending compensation. That’s who he is.

That said, the Republican “no” votes have become cake, and Democrats think they can use them to push for ridiculous and expensive demands on CVS.

They would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those nosy kids Musk and Ramaswamy.

Come Saturday, the government could shut down. If so, it’s not the fault of Republicans, who have now introduced a perfectly reasonable bill, but the fault of Democrats, who value their power more than federal employee paychecks during Christmas week.

Elections have consequences, and Trump is well aware that, if elected, outsiders like Musk and Ramaswamy will not only have a seat at the table, but will have real power and influence to advance Trump’s agenda.

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Perhaps most importantly, when voters hand the keys to the country back to Trump on Election Day, all they demand is change. Nothing but more of the same. This week, that’s exactly what voters got.

There is no doubt that Trump is taking a real political risk here. Democrats will now do their best to blame him for the shutdown, paint him as Musk’s puppet and stoke partisanship to dampen optimism and enthusiasm ahead of the inauguration.

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But what both Trump and Musk are counting on is that this sweeping change, chaotic as it may seem, is exactly what voters are demanding.

Politicians are ultimately judged by results, not strategy. As ugly as things are in Congress right now, the defeat of a horrific spending plan should deliver results that Americans will ultimately cheer.

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