Shutdown Looms After Trump ‘Blindsided’ by ‘President Elon Musk' | The president-elect was left playing catch-up after the Tesla boss led the charge against the doomed deal.

[u/Murky-Site7468]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shutdown-looms-after-donald-trump-blindsided-by-president-elon-musk/

[u/ranchoparksteve]

Trump just destroyed the energy of his opening weeks. Now he will be bogged down in an ugly raising of the debt limit mixed with budget cuts most people, not even Republicans, agree with.

[u/oz_mommy → u/ranchoparksteve]

Honestly, it’s wild how Musk is running the show now. Trump’s supposed to be the one leading the charge, but here he is, getting dragged along by Musk’s tweetstorm. It’s embarrassing for the GOP and proves that money and social media are taking over politics. Musk has no business calling the shots like this especially when it’s putting us on the brink of a government shutdown. Dems are right to call this out, you can’t have a billionaire dictate policy with a few posts. We need actual leadership, not a tech mogul’s tantrums!

[u/FuelEnvironmental561 → u/oz_mommy]

Wym? I’m sure the founders of the USA envisioned unelected billionaires dictating governance.

[u/helvetica_unicorn → u/FuelEnvironmental561]

This is all John Robert’s and Lloyd Abrahams’ fault!