Michel Lind  

If you wonder why President-elect Musk threw a tantrum, risking an all-but-certain government shutdown over the holiday season, it's all about ... his factory in China

Voters must really be getting buyer's remorse now.

#BillionairePolitics
#hypocrisy
#uspol

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
Dec 20, 2024 at 9:14pmWeb
Show threadDmitry BorodaenkoDec 21, 2024
@michelin Just checked, zero mention of this in #WaPo coverage of what was left out of the bill. Instead, they uncritically claim "#Musk, opposed, in part, it over its inclusion of Democratic policy priorities." There goes another bipartizan foreign policy issue: stopping transfer of jobs and sensitive technology to #China is now a #Democratic policy priority. Noted.