12/20/24: BREAKING: Shutdown LOOMS After Elon/Trump Deal FAILS
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Krystal and Emily discuss the looming government shutdown that may begin this weekend after Elon criticized the CR bill.
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| 1:00.8 | Good morning, everybody. Hope your day is off to a good start. We are sort of barreling towards a |
| 1:06.0 | potential government shutdown today, tonight, if nothing changes. So Emily and I just wanted to give you a little |
| 1:11.1 | update on what has happened since Breaking Points aired yesterday. Great to see you, Emily. Thank you for |
| 1:15.6 | joining me this morning. Thanks for having me, Crystal. Yeah, of course. I need you to interpret what's |
| 1:19.6 | going on in the Republican side of the ledger here. So let me just give people a little bit of an update. |
| 1:26.0 | So yesterday, we heard from Trump and Musk and others that |
| 1:31.0 | they had a new deal in order to avert this government shutdown. So basically, they need to |
| 1:38.1 | fund the government. And Trump also wants them to extend the debt ceiling or get rid of the debt ceiling altogether, which is |
| 1:45.3 | something I would certainly support. And so he put out this statement here. Success in Washington, |
| 1:52.4 | Speaker Mike Johnson, the House have come to a very good deal for the American people. The |
| 1:55.6 | newly agreed to American Relief Act of 2024 will keep the government open, fund our great |
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