Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, made an off-target comment on Elon Musk’s control over the Capitol Hill spending debate on Thursday. ” If you’re really catching up: the Republican Party, taking orders from the world’s richest man, is on course to shut down the government over the holidays, stopping wages for our soldiers and feeding benefits for low-income people just in time for Christmas”, the 2016 presidential candidate wrote on X. Clinton, a former first lady and legislator, was in Congress from 2001 to 2009. Her comments came just as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., released a new version of a continuing resolution, or CR, to keep the government open beyond a Friday night deadline.’ House Speaker Demitraus threatened to support a primary challenge to the original spending agreement that Johnson negotiated with Democrats, as well as House Demitraus, which was strongly opposed by Republicans who voted in favor of it. The government will go into partial government shutdown on Saturday at midnight without a passable deal to extend the government’s funding deadline to March and keep spending at 2024 levels. However, the most recent iteration of a spending plan is stifling House Democrats. And with$ 36 trillion in debt and a$ 1.8 trillion deficit in 2024, some conservatives are against a CR, which punts the funding deadline to March and keeps spending at 2024 levels, entirely. ” The Musk-Johnson proposal is not serious, it’s laughable. Extreme MAGA Republicans are driving us to a government shutdown”, said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N. Y. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., indicated Democratic leadership would whip their members to vote “no” on the deal. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., lamented that the last deal had been blown up by opposition from conservatives, with input from Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS DURING A PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN”Everybody agreed”, he said,” and then it was blown up by Elon Musk, who apparently has become the fourth branch of government. Democrats will try to figure out how to salvage the public good from the wreckage that has just been shoved. And that’s just an intolerable way of doing things. After the text of the bill was released,” Chants of” hell no” could be heard inside the room where Democrats were meeting.” The most recent continuing resolution, which President-elect Trump has demanded, would extend the current government funding levels for three months and also suspend the debt ceiling for two years. The right was upset about the first 1,500-page CR because of policy and funding restrictions. The new bill’s sponsor, FOX News APPHouse lawmakers, can vote on it as early as Thursday evening by clicking HERE. If the new agreement will be passed, it’s not immediately clear. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who led opposition to the initial bill, also blasted the new deal”.More debt. More government. $ 4 trillion credit card increase with NO restrictions on spending or budget cuts. HARD NO,” Roy wrote on X.