In addition to his usual title of the world’s richest man, Democrats are now describing him as “President Musk.”
On Wednesday, shortly after 4:00 am, the hyperactive owner of Tesla and SpaceX used his social platform X to attack the budget bill hammered out by Republicans and Democrats in Congress to keep the federal government operating.
“Kill the bill,“ he exhorted Republican members of the House of Representatives. “This bill is criminal.”
“In five years in Congress, I’ve been awaiting a fundamental change in the dynamic,“ Representative Dan Bishop commented on an X post by Musk. “It has arrived.”
Trump himself joined the budget battle later in the day.
The dramatic developments left the country facing a government shutdown just days before Christmas.
He followed up by reposting a picture of himself in front of an American flag with the words “VOX POPULI” and “VOX DEI,“ a Latin phrase which translates to “the voice of the people is the voice of God.”
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“Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government,“ Senator Bernie Sanders said. “The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn't like it.
Democratic Representative Jim McGovern said “at least we know who’s in charge.”
Speaking on CNN, David Axelrod, who served as chief strategist for Barack Obama's White House campaigns, said Musk and Trump need to “get together and decide who the president is.”
Musk played a large role in the closing stages of Trump's presidential campaign, appearing with him at a rally in Pennsylvania on the site where a gunman wounded the Republican candidate, and personally funding a reelection committee.
Musk and Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, a space race rival, dined with Trump on Wednesday evening at Mar-a-Lago.
SpaceX, for example, depends for a large part on US government contracts.
But he shelled out far more for Twitter (since re-branded as X) in 2022, paying $44 billion.
“It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter,“ joked George Conway, a conservative critic.
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