❗️ If no deal is reached today, tomorrow will bring the “Santa Claus Shutdown”—the government will come to a halt, officials will be sent on unpaid leave, and the economy will hold its breath.

Trump and Musk are proposing either raising the debt ceiling to $5 trillion or scrapping it altogether. Congress is stunned, Democrats are opposed, and conservatives are calling it “madness.”

Hello, Trump—welcome, shutdown. Let’s recall the record-breaking 2018 shutdown: 35 days, 800,000 officials without paychecks, and $11 billion in economic losses.

Congress is racing to push through temporary funding, but the clock is ticking.