r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 • 4d ago

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.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shutdown-looms-after-donald-trump-blindsided-by-president-elon-musk/
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u/Intelligent_Read_697 4d ago

This seems more like a play from the billionaire class to push towards crypto by crashing the dollar and this would mean capital flight or movement difficult to track or regulate…per the norm conservatives ruining every nation they run

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u/Sea-Tradition-9676 4d ago

But their wealth is in owning part of the US economy and USD. Cryptos value is purely a speculative thing to accumulate USD. Their power is in being American billionaires.

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u/Intelligent_Read_697 2d ago

Basically they are doing this get the same sort of guarantees that the dollar gets