Corruption pure and simple.
#TammanyHall21stCentury #MuskIsADanger #muskwasnotelected
βRepublicans showed the unprecedented influence of billionaire private individual Elon Musk over the Republicans who in 2025 will control the United States government. Musk has a strong financial interest in the outcome of discussions, but House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he had included Musk as well as President-elect Trump in the negotiation of the original bipartisan funding bill.
Then Musk blew up the agreement by issuing what was an apparent threat to fund primary challengers to any Republican who voted for it. He apparently scuttled the measure on his own hook, since Trump took about thirteen hours to respond to his torpedoing it.β
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-21-2024?r=ce00&utm_medium=ios