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T-minus 31 days till Inauguration Day.

Live updates and analysis from POLITICO’s Congress team.

Elon Musk tried to downplay his role in the collapse of a government spending bill, and after Democrats started referring to him as “President Musk.”

It will likely be one of the final rounds of relief Biden delivers before President-elect Trump takes office.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow gave his offensive line the gifts of a lifetime for Christmas this year: authentic Japanese katanas.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Republicans have arrived at a plan C to avert a shutdown and the House will vote Friday morning on the legislation. “Yeah, yeah, we have a plan,” Johnson said Friday morning as he entered the Capitol. “We’re expecting votes this morning, so you all stay tuned. We’ve got a plan.” […]

Today we don’t know if the United States government will shut down tomorrow because, first, Elon Musk followed by his co-president Donald Trump, persuaded House Republicans to vote against a compromise bill, and then, last night, Republicans couldn’t summon enough votes for a stripped-down continuing resolution because Trump insisted that it contai…

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