(Adnkronos) – “Yes we have a plan, we think we are going to vote this morning, so stay tuned, but we have a plan.” This is how Mike Johnson announced that a ‘plan C’ has been reached by the Republicans in a race against time to prevent the shutdown from starting today at midnight, with the stop of funding for federal government activities.
The Speaker, who in the last two days has seen the bipartisan agreement sunk by the attack first by Elon Musk and then by Donald Trump, and yesterday saw plan B rejected by the House, also with the vote of 38 deputies who rebelled against Trump’s diktat, has not yet provided details on the plan. In particular, it is not yet clear whether it will satisfy Trump’s demand, between statements and threats, that the debt ceiling be raised or even abolished.
“Congress must break free or at least extend the suspension until perhaps 2029 of the ridiculous debt ceiling, otherwise we should not make any agreement” he reiterated last night after plan B was rejected, which contained the suspension of the ceiling for two years, something that was not contained in the bipartisan agreement.
Trump also insists that if the temporary spending bill is not approved and therefore a default is reached, it will not be his fault but the fault of the incumbent president, Joe Biden. “If there has to be a shutdown let’s have it start with the Biden administration, not after January 20th, under Trump, this is a problem that Biden has to solve,” he wrote again this morning, explicitly showing how his goal is to free his next administration from the “quicksand” of the showdown over the shutdown.
