Trump Breaks With Johnson on Funding Bill, Wants Debt Limit Vote

President-elect Donald Trump said he opposes a proposed funding bill and threatened to oust fellow Republicans if they accepted legislation that didn’t include his demands, increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown later this week.

Trump on Wednesday — just days before federal funding is set to expire — said he wanted lawmakers to include an increase to the debt ceiling in the package, a politically fraught measure that would allow the Treasury Department to issue new debt to pay existing obligations.

“Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch,” Trump and Vice ...