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President-elect Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday to complain about the state of the omnibus spending deal — and demand that no deal pass without raising the debt ceiling for next year.

The debt ceiling, which can force the United States to default on payment obligations it already made, was extended to 2025 after a month of furious negotiation last year by then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who tried to squeeze draconian cuts to social spending out of the deal, and the Biden administration. At the time, some Republicans were opposed to raising the debt ceiling at all.

Social media users came out swinging against a conservative New York Times columnist who this week declared he was “done with never Trump,” and suggested the movement defeated itself.

The online backlash came in response to a Tuesday opinion piece by Bret Stephens, who said he believes Trump’s second term could be “as bad as his most fervent critics fear,” but still urged readers to send warm wishes to the new administration and give his cabinet selections “the benefit of the doubt.”

President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming vice president bemoaned "democrat giveaways" on Wednesday in trying to explain why they helped torpedo a stopgap funding bill that would avert a government shutdown just before the holidays.

The current continuing resolution funding the federal government expires at midnight Friday. If Congress fails to pass either another resolution or a budget by that time, the government will shut down, resulting in millions of federal workers temporarily going without paychecks and disrupting essential government services. Vital programs related to affordable housing and homelessness assistance could see delayed funding.

President-elect Donald Trump told Fox News host Lawrence Jones he was "totally against" a Republican bill that would prevent the government from partially shutting down before he takes office on Jan. 20.

In a Wednesday post on X, Jones said he had spoken to Trump "and he is 'totally against' the proposed CR."

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) went off-topic at a hearing on access to reproductive clinics to accuse the FBI of "spying" on Americans as they rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Jordan made the remarks Wednesday as the House Judiciary Committee was discussing the FACE Act, a law that protects access to abortion and pregnancy care clinics.

Outgoing President Joe Biden should grant a pardon to Charles Littlejohn, the IRS contractor sentenced to five years in prison for leaking tax information about President-elect Donald Trump, Rolling Stone's Bob Lord and Kenny Stancil wrote in an impassioned plea in Rolling Stone published on Wednesday.

Trump was infamous throughout his first term for keeping his tax returns under wraps, the first major party candidate in decades to do so, despite promises to release them after an "audit" had been completed. Some of that information was revealed in 2020 and published by The New York Times.

Attorney General Ashley Moody intends to bring Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump in September, to trial in state court for attempted felony murder of a six-year-old girl.

Routh is awaiting his federal trial in a Miami prison. Moody announced Wednesday morning in Stuart that the Florida Highway Patrol had obtained a state arrest warrant stemming from the girl’s injury in a car crash after police shut down I-95 in Martin County when they stopped Routh.

President-elect Donald Trump received a tongue-lashing in the conservative National Review after he moved to sue veteran pollster Ann Selzer for releasing a poll that showed him losing in Iowa — data that, he, with no evidence, claims in legal filings Selzer had maliciously rigged to try to prevent him from winning the election.

This legal action, which comes shortly after ABC News reached a controversial $15 million settlement of Trump's lawsuit against George Stephanopoulos for saying he was "found liable for rape," makes no sense, wrote GOP commentator Jeff Blehar.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday took a swipe at the House Ethics Committee for secretly voting to release their report into his conduct, but one section of his defense in particular left many observers scratching their heads.

While denying that he paid money to an underage girl in exchange for sex last decade, Gaetz did acknowledge that "in my single days, I often sent funds to women I dated -- even some I never dated but who asked."

After strongly defending even his most controversial nominees, and amid growing skepticism, pushback, and occasional mockery, even from Republican senators, President-elect Donald Trump issued a confusing statement Tuesday night, ordering Senate Republicans to not "fast track" any "nominations."

It appeared to be either a signal he might want to reconsider some nominees facing difficult confirmations by suggesting he has not made any nominations official and will do so only after he is sworn in next month, as some news outlets have suggested, or that—as some other news outlets suggested, he was referring to the last of President Biden's nominees.

Outgoing Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is not taking news that the House Ethics Committee will release what is expected to be a highly damaging report on him before Christmas lightly, and has posted a warning to his soon-to-be ex-colleagues on X on Wednesday afternoon.

After posting a long screed on X earlier professing his innocence while also admitting that he has given money to women he dated as well as others who just asked, he added, "I NEVER had sexual contact with someone under 18. Any claim that I have would be destroyed in court - which is why no such claim was ever made in court. My 30’s were an era of working very hard -- and playing hard too."

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta argued that President-elect Donald Trump would be putting democracy at risk if he pardons Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes for crimes committed on Jan. 6, 2021.

"The notion that Stewart Rhodes could be absolved is frightening and ought to be frightening to anyone who cares about democracy in this country," Mehta said Wednesday during the sentencing of one of Rhodes' former allies, according to Politico.