Senate Republicans are rallying behind the idea of a clean continuing resolution. It just can’t actually be clean — and it probably can’t address the debt limit.
As House Republicans rose up against Speaker Mike Johnson’s government funding plan, and Democrats suggested they weren’t open to a renegotiation, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance complicated the matter further Wednesday by demanding that any agreement — even the clean CR that conservatives have been pushing for — would be “destructive” without terminating or extending “the Debt Ceiling guillotine.”
“Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried,” Trump posted on Truth Social Wednesday night.