In a completely shocking display approaching courage, the U.S. Senate gave unanimous consent to transfer the property surrounding the old Robert F. Kennedy stadium to Washington, D.C.
Elon Musk, the newly minted Doge of American finance, had gone to his failing Twitter app to decry the move as building a new football stadium at taxpayer expense. Enough people believed Musk to create a crisis and throw the nation into a government funding mess just before Christmas.
Republicans and Democrats put the funding package back together after the Musk-Trump tantrum and passed the needed bills to keep the government funded around the midnight deadline.
But it wasn’t over yet. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stepped to the mic and asked the United States Senate for unanimous consent to give the stadium site to the city. No objections, so ordered.
The Senate does not unanimously give consent to much of anything, especially not something that the incoming Administration has just gone crazy attacking.
But here they were, “No objections, so ordered.”
The fact that it was the right thing to do, certainly weighed in Schumer’s favor. But for a high-stakes decision by the U.S. Senate, that is not usually enough. The fact that Schumer was able to get this measure enacted was a hard slap in the face to Musk, and, by extension, to his gopher Donald J. Trump.
Certainly, Schumer had done the work of bringing the Maryland senators on board with the plan. But there was more going on.
People spend their lives, their efforts and millions of dollars of other people’s money to get into the U.S. Senate. You get an office, some chairs, and the right to spend billions of dollars in government money. The fact that some Elon-come-lately from Twitter wants to control spending is not welcome.
A little after midnight, the entire U.S. Senate told Musk to go -—- himself. That can’t be a good start for Musk and it shows how weak Trump is in Congress.
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