White House blames government shutdown ‘mess’ on Johnson

Published December 20, 2024 2:14pm ET



House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is responsible for the prospect of a partial government shutdown after President-elect Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk opposed Johnson‘s original bipartisan funding deal and called for a debt ceiling debate, according to the White House.

“This is a mess that Speaker Johnson created,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday. “This is his mess to fix. There was a deal on the table. There was a bipartisan deal, a bipartisan deal. In this day and age, they were able to come up with a bipartisan deal and, you know, that agreement, Speaker Johnson needs to stick to. He needs to hold his commitment to that agreement.”

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