With just days left until the funds run out, President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have pressured Republicans across the United States to abandon a short-term spending bill intended to prevent a government shutdown.

The United States Congress faces a deadline of Friday to pass a budget for the 2025 fiscal year or face the closure of non-essential government functions.

But on Wednesday, a barrage of statements and social media posts from Trump and his new administration plunged a bipartisan agreement into chaos and increased the likelihood of a shutdown.

Pressure began to mount earlier in the day when Trump advisers began raising objections to the stopgap bill that would temporarily allow government agencies to continue at current funding levels.

But the 1,547-page document also contains other measures, including a pay raise for members of Congress, $100 billion in disaster relief and $10 billion in farm aid.

Pharmaceutical entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a former political rival turned Trump surrogate, criticized the bill on social media for what he said was excessive length.

“The bill could easily have been less than 20 pages. Instead, there are dozens of unrelated policy points crammed into the 1,547 pages of this bill,” he wrote on social media.

“Almost everyone agrees that we need a smaller (and) leaner federal government, but actions speak louder than words,” he added. “This is an early test. The bill should fail.”

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk — whom Trump recruited to work with Ramaswamy on a planned non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency — chimed in with posts throughout the day to “kill the bill.”

“This is crazy! This is NOT a democracy!” Musk wrote. “How can your elected officials be asked to pass a spending bill that they had no input into and didn’t even have enough time to read!!??”

The social media storm culminated in Trump speaking out himself and releasing a joint statement with his Vice President JD Vance.

Together they condemned what they described as “democratic gifts” in the current emergency solution.

“Republicans need to get smart and tough. When Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, call their bluff,” they wrote.

“This chaos wouldn’t be happening if we had a real president. WE WILL BE IN 32 DAYS!”

Trump is scheduled to take office for a second term on January 20th. The last government shutdown occurred during his first term in office in late 2018 and early 2019.

This shutdown was the longest in recent history, lasting nearly 35 days. Government contracts went unpaid and hundreds of thousands of federal employees were furloughed.

The then-Congressional Budget Office estimated that the five-week shutdown cost the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) $8 billion in the first quarter of 2019 due to the collapse in economic activity.

But Trump has shown little aversion to political risk, and his opposition to the current stopgap bill – or “continuing solution” – is poised to prevent another government shutdown early in his second term.

“Raising the debt ceiling isn’t great, but we’d rather do it under Biden’s watch. “If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, why would anyone think they would in June during our term?” Trump and Vance wrote.

However, Trump’s opposition to the bill puts him at odds with another prominent Republican: House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana.

Johnson’s predecessor, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, was ousted from his leadership position last year in a historic vote after he, too, struck a deal with Democrats to temporarily fund the federal government.

Critics speculate that Johnson could face a similar fate as a new Congress convenes in the new year.

But in an appearance on the conservative broadcaster Newsmax, Johnson defended his decision to propose the cross-party emergency solution.

The speaker argued there was a need to immediately provide money for farmers and disaster relief after a “record hurricane season” in the United States.

He also noted that the temporary funding would allow Republicans to fully debate the federal budget next year when both chambers of Congress fall under party control. The current emergency solution would have provided federal funds until March 14th.

“That was the conservative play call,” Johnson told Newsmax. “Normally we don’t like what’s called a continuing resolution or CR, but in this case it makes sense because if we move it (budgeting) to the first quarter of next year, then we’ll have a Republican-controlled Congress and “President Donald J. Trump back in the White House.”

“We will have more say in the funding decisions for 2025.”

Democrats are already calling discord in the Republican Party a harbinger of the unrest to come under a second Trump administration.

Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida pointed to Musk’s campaign to “kill the bill” as an example of the influence of big donors on Trump’s new administration.

“You gave him the influence to write a damning piece that would derail a budget bill because House Republicans are afraid of him,” Frost wrote. “No major example of oligarchy. Where the super-rich are in charge.”

Other Democrats accused Trump of failing to address the needs of the voters who voted him into office.

“House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government. And they are hurting the American working class they claim to support,” senior House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries posted on social media, referring to Trump’s comments.

“If you break the bipartisan agreement, you will bear the consequences that follow.”

Without further funding, government services are expected to cease at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time (05:01 GMT) on Saturday.