Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday called out Republicans for their role in the “most unproductive Congress” after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump passed House of Representatives Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) emergency spending bill. ), had paraded in chaos.
“We look at this as if this is their problem,” Crockett told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner.
She later continued, “Here’s the deal: There can be no solution without the Democrats. We’ve seen this time and time again and I’m just going to sit back and sip my tea and wait for them to find out.
Trump, in a joint statement with Vice President-elect JD Vance on Wednesdaybrokered a bipartisan budget deal that would have averted a government shutdown before funding expires Friday.
Trump demanded – on top of his call for a new budget law – an increase in the debt ceiling under the Biden administration as he threatened Republicans with primaries should try to pass the continuing resolution without such a move.
Lawmakers were surprised by the demand to raise the debt ceiling, an issue that was not part of the original negotiations and was not expected to be addressed until the summer of 2025.
Trump’s demands, coupled with Musk’s sea of X posts destroying the account as one of the “worst” ever written, arrive as Several Republicans have indicated they will not support Johnson or are publicly torn to keep him on as speaker next month.
Crockett later said in her interview with Wagner that Republicans do not “understand” how to govern and do not exhibit a “unified caucus,” as she criticized the party for bowing to “shadow President” Musk.
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“This quote takes away the ‘mandate’ that MAGA thinks exists, it doesn’t go anywhere because they literally can’t do the basics. We have passed the fewest bills in this Congress because of Republicans,” said Crockett, who added that Trump’s debt ceiling requirement is because he aims to “inflate” the debt.
She later continued, “Listen, I have no favors for you, Trump. When you get here, yes, you have the House, the Senate and the White House and you can all see if you can all work it out. But right now I’m not trying to shut down this government…