The Twitter owner is running up a sense of resentment already from a Congress that IS even pushing back against their own parties incoming President…
This was to be expected…
Even Trump is seeking to cool Musk’s wings….
The media screaming about Musk’s DOGE grab for power is just that…
Noise….
Congress is NOT gonna give awy its power to Musk or even Trump….
House Republicans are largely brushing aside Elon Musk’s threats to unseat members who supported the initial government funding measure he helped torpedo earlier this week.
After the tech billionaire called for the backers of that bipartisan bill to be voted out in two years, some GOP members dismissed Musk’s tirade as simply part of the “game” of Washington politics.
But even those who seem unfazed by threats suggest some colleagues could have good reason to worry given Musk’s immense wealth, ties to President-elect Trump and growing influence in Congress.
“I’ve been primaried four times, and I‘m more of a rebellious guy. If you threaten me, I dig my heels in and I don’t respond well to threats,” one GOP lawmaker said of Musk’s primary threats.
“All those social influencers out there were against me in the last primary, with a million followers and I didn’t back down an edge,” the lawmaker added, granted anonymity to speak candidly.
The lawmaker was one of the House Republicans to defend the original funding bill, which Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rolled out Tuesday night to avert a shutdown….
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Musk, the co-leader of Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) panel focused on slashing government spending, said any lawmaker who supported the bill should be voted out of office in 2026….
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[GOP Rep.] McCormick, who was among the 38 Republicans to vote against the clean CR, later acknowledged Musk’s current sway with some House members, while signaling he will not cave to pressure.
“Last time I checked, Elon Musk doesn’t have a vote in Congress. Now, he has influence, and he’ll put pressure on us to do whatever he thinks is right for him, but I have 760,000 people who voted for people to do the right thing for them,” he told CNN on Thursday….
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who met with House Republican leadership during discussions of the second spending proposal Thursday, confirmed Musk was not part of these conversations.
“It was Trump and it’s been Trump,” she told The Hill. “I know the media keeps trying to pitch Elon and Trump against each other. Just because they’re ticked off Elon called them out on their BS, doesn’t mean that Elon’s calling the shots.”…
Note…
For those of you that believed the media hype that ‘Democracy’ was going out the window?
You CAN breath now…
The The American ‘System’ of Government still works the way the guys back in the day designed it to….
Hey CG?
Remember when I mentioned about Elon Musk being born in South Africa?
Well……
Trump Addresses Elon Musk’s Growing Influence
President-elect Donald Trump said the notion that he has “ceded the presidency” to Elon Musk is a fiction and that even if Musk wanted the job, he couldn’t get it because of the Constitution’s requirement that the U.S. president be a natural-born citizen, NBC News reports.
Said Trump: “No, he’s not going to be president, that I can tell you. And I’m safe. You know why he can’t be? He wasn’t born in this country.”
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So, you are telling me to sympathize with you because you are just like Donald Trump.