Musk Calls Out Bill Endorsed by Mike Johnson: Funding for Pandemics, Vaccine Mandates and Bioweapon Labs

[Conservative Angle]

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A battle is raging among Republicans over the recent funding bill.

Elon Musk criticized the 1,500-page funding bill as “pork” and emphatically urged votes against it.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has a different take.

He said he tried explaining the challenges of bipartisan compromise to Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Johnsons basically said his hands were tied and that he had to please some Democrats to get a bill passed.

Despite this, Musk insists on blocking the bill.

He went on to imply that anyone who doesn’t vote against it should be voted out.

This bill is full of questionable items.

Funding for 12 new biolabs.

Mask mandates.

Vaccine passports.

Whatcha planning for, Congress?

This bill should not pass https://t.co/eccQ6COZJ4

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024

1,547 pages?

I wonder what’s in it?

Ever seen a bigger piece of pork? pic.twitter.com/ZesFCNSNKp

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024

If we look closer, it has a very 2020 vibe to it:

BREAKING: Mike Johnson's new spending bill allows vaccine and mask mandates, vaccine passports, expanded emergency powers, and gain-of-function research. pic.twitter.com/5uZSCVOFSP

— The General (@GeneralMCNews) December 18, 2024

It’s also funding bioweapon labs!

We’re funding bioweapon labs in this bill! https://t.co/gYAfqrUmjI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024

The Hill reports:

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he talked to billionaire Elon Musk about the 1,500-page government funding deal after Musk voiced his opposition to the bill, and that the incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief understands the “impossible” position the Speaker is in.

Musk on Wednesday morning posted on his social platform, X: “This bill should not pass” and “Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?”

Asked about that opposition, Johnson said he had talked to Musk and his DOGE partner Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday night about their concerns.

“I was communicating with Elon last night,” Johnson said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning. “Elon, Vivek [Ramaswamy] and I were on a text chain together, and I was explaining to them the background of this. And Vivek and I talked last night, about almost midnight, and he said, ‘Look, I get it.’ He said, ‘We understand you’re in an impossible position. Everybody knows that.’”

“Remember, guys, we still have just a razor-thin margin of Republicans. So any bill has to have Democratic votes,” Johnson said. “They understand the situation. He said, ‘It’s not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don’t like the spending.’ I said, ‘Guess what, fellas, I don’t either.”

Musk isn’t playing around.

#BREAKING: Elon Musk just said that ANY member of Congress who votes for Mike Johnson’s massive spending bill should be voted out in two years

Elon’s not missing around!

PREPARE TO BE PRIMARIED, RINOs! pic.twitter.com/KfJx2ERBgc

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 18, 2024

https://t.co/JBrTHySY39

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024

People are not happy about this.

Mike Johnson went from promising to never pass another omnibus to becoming the handmaiden of one of the most obscene lame duck omnibus spending bills in history. All this guy does is make promises he refuses to keep. https://t.co/ynl5nQ8ViR pic.twitter.com/0hKc4cbTF3

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 17, 2024

Thank you! https://t.co/Ek7cjGRb3u

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024

Here’s Johnson on Fox & Friends:

Speaker Mike Johnson: “Elon Musk told me he doesn’t like the spending bill. I told them – I don’t either. We just have to get this done.”

Mike needs to go!
pic.twitter.com/GYouhGQxwY

— I Meme Therefore I Am

(@ImMeme0) December 18, 2024

Why isn’t disaster relief in a standalone bill?

PUT IT IN A STANDALONE BILL!

Quit holding disaster relief hostage!

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 18, 2024

AND GRANTS FOR 12 NEW BIOLABS! pic.twitter.com/v0tnPRgfpu

— Liberty Raptor

(@LibertyRaptor32) December 18, 2024

"This criminal bill should NOT pass." – @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/ZcRbTWxRys

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) December 18, 2024

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