Shutdown Season?
It’s been chaotic on Capitol Hill.
On Wednesday, Congressional leaders were poised to pass a bipartisan deal to fund the government through March until DOGE’s Elon Musk and President-elect Trump rallied their online troops to oppose the bill filled with “waste and corruption.” After support for the bill crumbled, Republicans scrambled to draft a new Trump-supported version... which failed to pass the House last night.
Speaker Johnson (R-LA) must pick up the pieces by tonight to avoid a government shutdown.
Meanwhile, Congress overwhelmingly passed an $895B defense spending bill. It improves military pay and benefits and boosts funding for competition with China and Russia; controversially, the bill also bans funding for medical interventions that could “sterilize” service members’ children “diagnosed with gender dysphoria.”
The bill now heads to the Oval Office for the expected John Hancock.
Verse to consider whether you get a lump of coal, a Barbie Dream House, or a government shutdown for Christmas… “For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. The dominion will be vast, and its prosperity will never end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from now on and forever.”
Isaiah 9:6-7 (CSB) (read full passage)