Musk Kills Government Funding Deal, Demands Shutdown Until Trump Is Sworn In – Rolling Stone

                        By  <a class="c-link  lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary-dark:hover lrv-u-text-decoration-underline:hover lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/"            >   Miles Klee</a>                      <br>    <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/elon-musk/"  >Elon Musk</a>, self-described &#8220;<a  rel="nofollow"  href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/business/zuckerberg-trump-musk-tech-nightcap/index.html"  target="_blank"  >First Buddy</a>&#8221; of President-elect <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/"  >Donald Trump</a>, went all out to thwart a last-minute funding deal to avert a <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/government-shutdown/"  id="auto-tag_government-shutdown"  data-tag="government-shutdown"  >government shutdown</a>. The move was a direct challenge to Republican House Speaker <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/mike-johnson/"  >Mike Johnson</a>, who rolled out the sweeping plan on Tuesday night.<br>     Now, it appears Musk has successfully killed the stopgap measure in its cradle &mdash; before it was even brought to a vote. <br>   In a manic posting spree on Wednesday, the world&#8217;s richest man bombarded his platform X, formerly <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/twitter/"  >Twitter</a>, with attacks on a proposed funding bill, which would&#8217;ve kept the government funded through March 14 and had bipartisan support. He also amplified misinformation about what&#8217;s in the 1,500-page bill &mdash; as did his non-governmental commission, the <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doge-deregulation-donald-trump-elon-musk-1235190794/"  >Department of Government Efficiency</a> (DOGE), which is recommending cuts to government spending and regulations to the incoming Trump administration.<br>   Trump himself <a  rel="nofollow"  href="https://x.com/chueyburns/status/1869491642203553974?s=46"  target="_blank"  >opposes the resolution</a>, according to a <a  rel="nofollow"  href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1869495076604227726"  target="_blank"  >joint statement</a> shared Wednesday by Vice President-elect <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/jd-vance/"  >J.D. Vance</a>. Various hard-right GOP representatives also vowed to vote against it. Should Johnson fail to get a spending plan passed by Dec. 20, the federal government will enter a partial shutdown ahead of the holidays. But that apparently sounded ideal to Musk and his social media clique.      <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300">                  <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;"   class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0"       class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">

        blogherads.adq.push(function () {
                            blogherads
                .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0' )
                            .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article","mid","in-article1","mid-article1","inbody","inbody1"] )

.setTargeting( ‘viewable’, ‘yes’ )
.setSubAdUnitPath(“politics/article/inbody1”)
.addSize([[300,250],[620,350],[2,2],[3,3],[2,4],[4,2],[640,250],[6,6],[620,366]])
.setClsOptimization(“minsize”)
;
});