The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China

There’s a mundane reason for the late-term chaos, and it’s called a conflict of interest.
Tesla’s Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, is seen on December 31, 2023.
In a sense, Donald Trump is picking up where he left off. Most of us remember the last official act of his presidency as the Capitol Riot, but just before that, just before Christmas 2020, he inserted himself late into a government funding fight that he had been previously disinterested in. Congress had agreed to a bipartisan […]
The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China

Elon Musk Declares Himself President, Shuts Down Government – The American Prospect

And Donald Trump, for now, is fine with it.
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On Wednesday, Elon Musk began posting frantically on Twitter against the continuing resolution Congress needs to pass to keep the government operating.
For weeks now, House Republicans have been negotiating a traditional American funding bill. Since the government is broken and regular-order budgeting doesn’t happen anymore, Congress is routinely passing “continuing resolutions” (CRs) funding the […]
Elon Musk Declares Himself President, Shuts Down Government – The American Prospect