Without some kind of additional funding legislation, the federal government will run out of funds and enter a partial shutdown at Midnight on December 21, as Friday becomes Saturday. Another continuing resolution (CR) – this one supported by both President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk – failed to pass the House on Thursday, December 19. The Trump-backed bill came quickly on the heels of the massive spending package that died when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) caved under pressure from the president-elect and many of his fellow Republicans to pass a simple, clean CR rather than a 1,500-plus-page monstrosity full of legislative pork. But it died just as quickly.
Now, with just one day left before the funding runs out, questions loom. Will the government shut down? If so, for how long – and what will the spending package that ends it…
