Elon Musk Is the Billionaire Grinch That Ruined Christmas
Trump’s right-hand man threw a wrench in government shutdown talks, “and it’s just the beginning,” said The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s right-hand man Elon Musk is already giving America’s elected leaders a taste of what’s to come, The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy explained on this week’s podcast.
With a government shutdown looming, “President Musk” took to X to “threaten Republican members of Congress” to vote against a bipartisan resolution that would have funded the government through March and staved off a looming government shutdown.
“What they continue to show before anyone puts their hand on that Bible on Inauguration Day is that they do not care how this country functions, who they harm,” said Moodie. “It’s just one big joke to them.”
“Of course, Elon Musk, the probably richest man in the world, will be fine. If the government shuts down for 33 days, it’d probably be good for him because he is basically doing all of this because he wants to pay even less tax than he does, and he wants to have even fewer regulations on his companies than we have,” Levy added. “So shutting the government down to him is a win, and that is literally all he cares about.”
Plus! Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Spencer Ackerman joins the podcast to discuss the next administration’s potential reshaping of Middle East policy, and The New Republic writer Edith Olmsted unpacks Musk’s unprecedented presidential influence.
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