Musk abruptly disrupted the year-end spending bill that was poised to restrict his investment in China with a bunch of lies from X, his media platform.

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-12-20-government-shutting-down-elon-musk-factories-china/

The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China

There’s a mundane reason for the late-term chaos, and it’s called a conflict of interest.

The American Prospect