House Scraps Spending Bill & Mangione’s Extradition | 12.19.24
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As a potential government shutdown looms, lawmakers in the House are scrambling to come to terms on a continuing resolution. The fact is, is that, look, this is a sandwich. I don't know how else to say that. We're being forced into this position.
What are the sticking points and is a solution on the horizon?
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, December 19th, and this is Morning Wire. Suspected members of Venezuelan gang Trend de Aragua are behind bars in Colorado after allegedly breaking into an apartment and torturing its residents.
They were beaten. They were pistol whipped. The man was stabbed multiple times in his leg. And they held the woman down and they ripped out her fingernail.
And suspected CEO killer Luigi Mangione is set to be extradited to New York today where he faces murder and terrorism charges.
There is no heroism in what Mangione did. This was a senseless act of violence.
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Republicans have struggled to come to terms on a continuing resolution to fund the government before the rapidly approaching shutdown date. Now, a bipartisan bill Speaker Mike Johnson was backing has reportedly been scrapped. Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham is here now with the budget battle. So, Megan, the House has until midnight on Saturday to pass a spending bill. If they don't, the government shuts down. So give us a breakdown. Why did Johnson's bill die?
Well, you know, essentially because he was facing a revolt led by Elon Musk and the House Freedom Caucus. They felt that this was a bloated bill, more than 1,500 pages, that added on tens of billions in unnecessary new spending. And they said it was being rammed through before anyone could fully review it. Eric Burleson of Missouri called the bill a total dumpster fire. Chip Roy of Texas said passing it would be the equivalent of eating a crap sandwich. So pretty pointed words there. Then there was Elon Musk. Trump has tasked him and Vivek Ramaswamy with finding spending cuts, and Musk clearly wanted Republicans to reject this bill. He'd been posting prolifically against it on X for days, including this clip of Ramaswamy that he shared on Wednesday.
Congress is about to pass a bill that blows away your taxpayer money, but they made it over 1,500 pages long so you wouldn't read it. I did you a favor. I read it for you. It's supposed to be about keeping government operations open and providing disaster relief aid to hurricane victims, which I'm sympathetic to. But if you read the bill carefully, it contains pay raises for members of Congress, And I'm not making this up, an expansion of their federal health benefits. It contains all kinds of special interests and pork funding, including opening up a new stadium in Washington, D.C. It renews the Global Engagement Center, which is a key node of the censorship industrial complex. And the worst part is they didn't want you to know about any of it.
And that's why they made this a last minute jam job.
Now, regular listeners will remember, Georgia, that we talked about the Global Engagement Center last week. That's a controversial State Department agency that is at the center of a joint Daily Wire and Federalist lawsuit alleging widespread censorship efforts against conservatives. Shutting it down has been a top priority for free speech advocates for a while, and its end did look imminent.
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