'President-elect Musk': Elon's influence on display in government spending fight

Hours before Donald Trump blew up a bipartisan stopgap funding deal Wednesday, putting the federal government in danger of a Christmas holiday shutdown, an influential member of his inner circle already was working hard to sink the bill.
Elon Musk took to X – a social media platform he owns – to slam the spending measure, repeatedly writing that lawmakers should “kill the bill” in a tsunami of more than 100 posts that swamped the carefully negotiated funding measure.
When Trump finally […]
'President-elect Musk': Elon's influence on display in government spending fight