NewsChest Technology

America is hours away from a holiday season government shutdown courtesy of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Everyone knew the president-elect and his new super-disrupter buddy were going to cause havoc in Washington. But no one thought they’d manage it even before the 47th president is sworn in.

Barring a pre-Christmas legislative miracle, the US government will plunge into a partial shutdown at midnight Friday after Musk tanked a year-end spending […]
A farce before Christmas could send the government into a Trump-Musk shutdown – CNN

A funny thing happened on the way to a bipartisan agreement to fund US government operations and avoid a partial shutdown this week.
Conservatives in Congress – encouraged by tech multi-billionaire Elon Musk – balked.
Republicans tried to regroup on Thursday afternoon, offering a new, slimmed-down package to fund the government. That vote failed, as 38 Republicans joined most Democrats in voting no.
All this political drama provides just a taste of the chaos and unpredictability that […]
Musk flexes influence over Congress in shutdown drama – BBC

<iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/news/2024/12/20/warren-fights-musk-cfpb-delete-watchdog-trump"></iframe>
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing back against Republican pressure to weaken or even abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — an agency she helped create that has returned billions of dollars to Americans.
The CFPB long has been a prime target of […]
Sen. Warren fights back on Elon Musk's call to 'delete' watchdog agency | WBUR News

Elon Musk torpedoed a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown. Trump one-upped him by demanding that the bill hike the debt ceiling. A new bill failed. Who’s in charge here?
Happy holidays! Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are right around the corner—cultures all around the world celebrate festivals of light at this time of year. But the Republican Party seems to have opted for the darkly funny, Seinfeld-invented holiday of “Festivus,” best known for “the airing of the […]
The Billionaire Who Stole Christmas | The Nation