House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is responsible for the prospect of a partial government shutdown after President-elect Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk opposed Johnson‘s original bipartisan funding deal and called for a debt ceiling debate, according to the White House.
“This is a mess that Speaker Johnson created,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday. “This is his mess to fix. There was a deal on the table. There was a bipartisan deal, a bipartisan deal. In this day and age, they were able to come up with a bipartisan deal and, you know, that agreement, Speaker Johnson needs to stick to. He needs to hold his commitment to that agreement.”
Although Jean-Pierre reiterated the White House’s criticism of Johnson, she also scrutinized Trump and Musk when asked about Democrats describing Musk as Trump’s co-president,…
