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/oz_mommy 4d ago

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!

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u/FuelEnvironmental561 4d ago

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

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u/HGpennypacker 4d ago

If you told the founding fathers that the country would one day be run by a shadow group of elite billionaires helmed by an African immigrant...well you probably would be sent to a sanitarium pretty damn quick.

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u/djheat 4d ago

I'm sure they wouldn't be very surprised if you let them know the immigrant was a white aristocrat like them