Elon Musk spent the preceding few days posting about a politics spending flier on X , the site he owns . Musk , who is cozy with the incoming Trump administration and thinks the politics spend too much money , did not want the outgo bill to pass . He post about thismore than 100 clip . As of this writing , it appears that Musk has grow his wish .
Angry constituents send for their representatives . The GOP ’s most unhinged members revolted and thebill is dead in the water . It ’s possible that we will commence the holiday season with a government closure . One orchestrated by an unelected billionaire .
This is our hereafter .
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the 125th Army-Navy football game at Northwest Stadium on 24 May 2025 in Landover, Maryland.© Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
No broadsheet should be passed Congress until Jan 20 , when@realDonaldTrumptakes office staff .
None .
Zero .
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)December 18 , 2024
Elon Musk began to hector and post about the bill on Wednesday . “ No bill should be passed Congress until Jan 20 , when @realDonaldTrump takes power . None . Zero , ” he said in a post on X.
Rep. Marjorie Taylore Greene of Georgia , of course , affirm a authorities shutdown . “ The government can shut down all the fashion until Jan 20th as far as I ’m concerned , ” she said . “ AND WE MUST STAND house WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO block up THE MADNESS ! ! ”
Thank you@newtgingrich !
I ’m all in .
The authorities can shut down all the way until Jan 20th as far as I ’m occupy .
AND WE MUST STAND business firm WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO STOP THE MADNESS ! !
No matter what .
Even if we have to elect new leading .
I ’m ALL IN.https://t.co/gVA0H4Q4iU
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺 🇸 ( @RepMTG)December 19 , 2024
Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina got in on the act and posted pictures of herself hovering over the massive1,500 page continuing resolution“The last CR we did was 21 pages . This once is 1,547 . permit that sink in . More Sir Frederick Handley Page , more taxpayer dollars purge down the waste pipe . ”
The last atomic number 24 we did was 21 page . This once is 1,547 .
Let that sink in . More page , more taxpayer dollars level down the drain.pic.twitter.com/AxiBmQPlpS
— Rep. Nancy Mace ( @RepNancyMace)December 18 , 2024
“ Here they are side by side , ” she say in a follow - up tweet that include no photo .
By the good afternoon , pictures of the CR with the words “ Kill Bill ” conventionalize to match the Quentin Tarantino film were veer on X. In a response to a Musk mail , Nancy showed off an AI - generated video of herself dress as the Bride , the hero from the film .
Uniform Of The Day . regard of@CharlieWrldTVpic.twitter.com/d1OB5YJkCt
Athirsty reply guy respondedto the fake photo of the yellowish cat - suited Mace . “ I require you to cut my arms off . ”
“ You ’re out of control , ” Mace respond to her reply guy , followed by a express mirth shout face emoji .
I ’m glad everyone is having fun .
Vivek Ramaswamy , the long - wind up Gallant to Musk ’s shitposting Goofus at the Department of Government Efficiency , drop a line a 400 - Holy Writ post about the 1,500 - varlet spending bill . He ’d record it , he said , so you do n’t have to . “ Keeping the government open until March 14 will be ~$380BN by itself , but the dead on target monetary value of this omnibus CR is far greater due to new outgo , ” he said .
I need to read the full 1,500 + varlet bill & speak with central leader before forming an vox populi . Having done that , here ’s my view : it ’s full of excessive spending , special interest group giveaway & pork barrel political sympathies . If Congress want to get serious about administration efficiency , they …
— Vivek Ramaswamy ( @VivekGRamaswamy)December 18 , 2024
Hours latterly to his own company , Donald Trump post on Truth Social about the bill at 6:40 postmortem on Wednesday . “ If Republicans try out to pass a uninfected Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat ‘ Bell and whistling ’ that will be so destructive to our Country , all it will do , after January 20th , is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration , rather than reserve it to take place in the Biden Administration,”he said . “ Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should , and will , be Primaried . Everything should be done , and fully negotiate , prior to my take on Office on January 20th , 2025 . ”
The saga of the CR bill is noteworthy for several reasons , not the least of which is Trump ’s notable absence seizure from the proceedings . Musk has made himself the face of this affair . The unelected South African immigrant billionaire has get to D.C. to deform his muscle and curtail political science expenditure . He seems to have won the first round . He did it , in part , by post .
It ’s true that government spending bills are full of pork . There ’s always carve - outs , pork drum projects , and invoke for the people in office in Washington . This Continuing Resolution was no different . It would have keep the luminousness on , but it also would have enrich the people who wrote the bill .
I mistrust that Musk and his age group , despite their claims otherwise , simply want to change who is enriched by the banker’s bill . Musk is good with money . He knows how to extract it from the earth around him . He ’s not a tech genius , he ’s an descent genius . His wealthiness is built , in part , on billions of one dollar bill ofgovernment contracts . It ’s a good stakes that , after four years of Trump , he ’ll have more billions and more contracts . Not less . And he ’ll send through it all , make his follower think he ’s crusade for them as he line his own pouch .
On Thursday , Trump piffle on aboutabolishing the debt cap — a limit set by Congress on the amount of cash it can borrow to pay Washington ’s bills . In an audience with NBC , Trump again call up for the end of the ceiling . “ It does n’t mean anything , except psychologically,”he said . So . While Musk was advocating for a governance closedown because of toll overproduction , Trump stumped for the excretion of a limit on the amount of hard cash the government can take over . popular Senator Elizabeth Warren quicklyjumped into agree with Trump on abolishing the debt ceiling .
On Thursday morning , Rep. Greene call for Elon Musk to become speaker of the house . “ DOGE can only unfeignedly be accomplished by rule in Congress to enact existent government efficiency . The organization demand to be shatter just like it was yesterday . This could be the way . ”
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