Will Musk Trigger a Government Shutdown?
On Trumponomics, we discuss whether his rampage across Washington will set the stage for a bigger crisis, and what it means for “DOGE.”
House Democrats protested against a Republican budget proposal outside the US Capitol Tuesday. Congress will need to pass a stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown in less than a month.
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Elon Musk has said his so-called Department of Government Efficiency is trying to make the US government more efficient. But an increasing number of Americans—and Democrats especially—see his rampage across Washington as destructive. Now there may be broader consequences to the multibillionaire’s “move fast and break things” strategy: a US government shutdown.