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

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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?

1,547 pages?

I wonder what’s in it?

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

It’s also funding bioweapon labs!

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.

People are not happy about this.

Here’s Johnson on Fox & Friends:

Why isn’t disaster relief in a standalone bill?



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