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•Congress is scrambling to avoid a government shutdown after the House rejected a second Trump-Johnson spending deal
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Congress is trying to avoid a government shutdown for the third time this week .
The House rejected a compromise continuing resolution worked out by President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson .
Conservative Republicans balked at that deal for giving far too much away to Democrats .
Sen. Rand Paul suggested that either Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy should be House Speaker.
Elon Musk has come out in support of the second Trump-Johnson spending deal that lifted the debt ceiling for two years .
Musk has also come out against the bill that retained all the extra disaster spending from the first bill.
The majority of Republican lawmakers are OK with hiking the debt limit without any offsetting spending cuts.
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