<p>President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> on Wednesday slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s (R-LA) proposed spending deal to keep the government open, saying that it was a capitulation to what Democrats want and that it needed to be stopped.</p>
<p>Trump made the remarks in a statement posted to Truth Social as Elon Musk pressed Republicans to oppose the bill, calling it &#8220;one of the worst bills ever written.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee—which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day. This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.&#8221;</p>
<p>The stopgap measure seeks to provide funds through March 14, 2025, and more than $100 billion in disaster aid. It also has provisions geared toward boosting farmers, health care reform, rebuilding Maryland’s devastated Francis Scott Key Bridge, a pay raise for Congress, and more.</p>
<p>Trump said that Congressional Republicans made a serious mistake by allowing the debt ceiling to be reached during 2025, after he takes office, and that the issue needed to be dealt with now.</p>
<p>&#8220;Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump called on Republicans to get &#8220;smart and tough&#8221; and learn how to play hardball with Democrats.</p>
<p>&#8220;If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.&#8221;</p>
<p>He concluded by saying that the chaos happening in D.C. was a direct result of having a weak leader in President Joe Biden.</p>
<p><em>Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report. </em></p>

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