Trump is bringing chaos back to Washington by trying to kill the bipartisan budget deal

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump has dealt a likely death blow to budget negotiations in the bipartisan Congress by dismissing the measure as a “treason against our country” just days before a spending deadline. It was a display of dominance from a president-elect who is still hundreds of miles away at his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago and reinjected a sense of chaos reminiscent of his first term in office. The episode also showed the influence of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who spent the day attacking the budget legislation as full of excessive spending. Trump’s allies were overjoyed by his intervention, seeing it as the fulfillment of his promise to shake up Washington. But lawmakers were also confused.