Elon Musk's intervention on social media led to the downfall of a bipartisan budget deal, demonstrating his growing influence over the Republican Party and the incoming Trump administration. Democrats, now calling him 'President Musk,' criticize his actions as unstable and megalomaniacal.
Elon Musk ’s role in wrecking a bipartisan Congress deal to avert a US government shutdown has underlined his extraordinary influence over the Republican Party and the incoming administration of Donald Trump . In addition to his usual title of the world’s richest man, Democrats are now describing him as “President Musk.
”Musk has been tapped by Trump to run the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) agency, but the billionaire is throwing his weight around even before the president-elect takes office on January 20. On Wednesday, shortly after 4:00 am, the hyperactive owner of Tesla and SpaceX used his social platform X to attack the budget bill hammered out by Republicans and Democrats in Congress to keep the federal government operating. “This bill should not pass,” the 53-year-old Musk wrote in the first of what became a barrage of posts. “Kill the bill,” he exhorted Republican members of the House of Representatives. “This bill is criminal.”“In five years in Congress, I’ve been awaiting a fundamental change in the dynamic,” Representative Dan Bishop commented on an X post by Musk. “It has arrived.” Other right-wing members of Congress even went so far as to suggest that the South African-born Musk should take over as House speaker.The 78-year-old president-elect denounced the spending bill as “ridiculous and extraordinarily expensive.”Musk rejoiced after the bill was torpedoed. “The voice of the people was heard,” he said. “This was a good day for America.” He followed up by reposting a picture of himself in front of an American flag with the words “VOX POPULI” and “VOX DEI,” a Latin phrase which translates to “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” After the intervention, Republicans in Congress on Thursday came up with a new funding package that satisfied Trump — and Musk. Democrats have painted the tech billionaire as unstable and a megalomaniac, and hope calling him “President Musk” will needle Trum
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