Eloise Goldsmith is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Congress is careening toward a government shutdown after U.S. President-elect Trump, egged on by billionaire Elon Musk —who helped bankroll Trump's reelection campaign and is slated to help oversee cuts to government spending and regulation in the new administration—torpedoed a federal spending bill that would have kept the government open for the next few months. The episode has drawn sharp rebuke from Democrats , and caused a number to muse whether it's Musk who's really in charge.
You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.'Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance threw cold water on the spending bill Wednesday afternoon with a joint statement, arguing that the bill included 'DEMOCRATIC GIVEAWAYS.' The directive from Trump came after Musk spent much of Wednesday airing his opposition to the spending package on the platform X, which he owns.
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