BURSTDonald Trump Jr. knocked the continuing resolution (CR) on Wednesday over a provision concerning subpoenas for House data, piling on pushback from President-elect Trump’s allies to the stopgap spending deal.
“So the house is going to vote to protect itself from glaring and obvious wrongdoing? The American people didn’t vote for this. They voted for the opposite. They voted for transparency. This cannot pass,” Donald Trump Jr. said on the social platform X.
He shared a post from conservative media personality Benny Johnson, who highlighted a provision in the CR that he said would let Congress block subpoenas for House data, such as emails, that he said could prevent an investigation into the now-defunct House committee that investigated the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
The provision in the CR says that “upon a motion made promptly by a House office or provider for a House office, a court of competent jurisdiction shall quash or modify any legal process directed to the provider for a House office if compliance with the legal process would require the disclosure of House data of the House office.”
The stopgap measure’s text, released days before the Friday shutdown deadline, aims to push the deadline to March, giving the next Congress and incoming president more time to decide how the government should be funded for the majority of next year.
The bill contains numerous add-ons, including disaster assistance for hurricane damage and farmers; a health care deal that includes reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager industry; an extension of the farm bill; and a provision that opens the door to move the Washington Commanders stadium to D.C.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing intense criticism from some of his GOP colleagues over the bill, with critics arguing the bill is more like a sprawling omnibus than a temporary funding measure.
Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a co-leader of Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), also slammed the stopgap spending deal, urging congressional members to vote against the massive bill if they are “serious about government efficiency.”
Elon Musk, the other DOGE co-lead, urged Americans on X to call their elected representatives about opposing the bill.