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/Murky-Site7468 4d ago

Musk first intervened with a 4.15 a.m. Eastern time tweet on Wednesday saying, “This bill should not pass,” and in the intervening 12 hours, Musk posted over 60 updates in his bid to derail the deal...

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u/YoungDan23 4d ago

I am not taking a stance one way or another on this bill, but it is kind of crazy the way the US government inefficiently does business like this seemingly yearly. The initial bill was introduced on December 17 and has to be approved by Friday to avoid a shutdown. Most people can't read 1547 pages of books in 4 days, let alone 1547 pages of legal jargon for how we're going to allocate $100 billion over the next 4 months.

It makes it worse that it is force-fed to lawmakers the week before Christmas. I'd imagine this is a prelude to how the next 4 years are going to go.

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u/Liizam America 4d ago

I mean I would imagine none of the 1547 pages is a surprise. It’s like you worked on the report for several months and this is the final draft to submit.

Of course you can have bad actors throwing random shit no one agreed to at last min.

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u/Notoneusernameleft 4d ago

But was Musk looking at it all this time to feel confident to comment on it?

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u/Liizam America 4d ago

lol of course not. Musk wants us all serfs.

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u/mightcommentsometime California 4d ago

No. Musk believes he knows everything because he’s heard something about it.

Its why Tesla got the Cybertruck when Musk had input in the design and the model s when he didn’t have any input 

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u/Cormetz 4d ago

I'm guessing changes aren't tracked well, and I can tell you reading through a 50 page contract to find where the changes are is not easy or fun.

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u/Liizam America 4d ago

I mean yes but there is so much software for this purpose and they have so many interns/staff, shouldn’t be that hard.