View: US government shutdown threat shows Muskis Trump's wrecking ball
US government has just narrowly avoided a shutdown — and the speculation, confusion and concern around tech titan Elon Musk’s power in Washington is rampant. So rampant that President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming press secretary was forced to clarify.
“As soon as President Trump released his official stance on the CR, Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his point of view,” Karoline Leavitt explained about the plan to keep the government funded, known as a continuing resolution.“President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Full stop.”
This was not entirely convincing. It was not convincing because Musk, who gave Trump’s reelection effort a quarter of a billion dollars, has emerged as an unexpected, unelected and uncontrollable political powerhouse. He derailed the bipartisan plan to keep the government open and put Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s job in jeopardy by posting to his 200 million followers on X, the platform he owns.
“This bill should not pass,” Musk posted at 4:15 am on Wednesday.
He followed up with over 150 additional posts, some of which were outright lies about the bill. (There was no 40% raise for lawmakers or $3 billion sweetheart deal for a football stadium in DC.) Trump and his nearly invisible actual governing partner, JD Vance, weighed in later — much later.
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