Lawmakers are scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, as members of both parties say they don’t want funding to lapse next week. But one person might not mind if Congress misses the deadline: Elon Musk.
“Sounds great,” he wrote last week on X of a potential shutdown.
Musk has already demonstrated his ability to derail Republican leaders’ plans and destroy spending bills, as he did in December when he led a revolt against a carefully crafted bipartisan funding plan. If Republicans can’t win over Musk — who still has tremendous power in Donald Trump’s White House — on their tentative plan to extend current funding levels for several more months, they could find themselves facing another social media mob and rewriting the legislation at the last moment.