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Donald Trump has not lost his bond with Elon Musk since at times the businessman overshadowed the president-elect as he pressured House Republicans into slashing their bipartisan spending agreement to prevent a government shutdown to the eleventh hour. Analysts said that the move by Musk to nuke the political system by threatening to sink the deal unless Republicans deny Trump the presidency through a primary challenge was a taste of the kind of role that Musk might play to hold Congress to ransom once Trump is in the White House. Behind the scene though Trump did not get his own demand for Republicans to raise the debt ceiling the president-elect indicated, Musk’s performance demonstrated that he could be a powerful instigator of activity once in office and at the helm of aptly named ‘Department of Government Efficiency’.
The Mar-a-Lago consensus was that Musk was a useful club to whack Congress with and a convenient pin to summarily pop when the time came for the dolphins, several of the people said. It looks like a new direction for Trump and could mean he is becoming more thoughtful in his policies, after his first batch of presidency where he constantly faced legislative and image barriers as he went about his work. Back in 2018, Trump stated that he would be glad to close the federal government in case he could not get the funding that he was planning to get from the democrats for construction of the wall on the Mexican border. “I will be the one to pull the plug,” Trump told reporters then, to the chuckles of Pelosi and Schumer of those days. “I will take the mantle. And I will shut it down for border security.”
Donald Trump has not lost his bond with Elon Musk since at times the businessman overshadowed the president-elect as he pressured House Republicans into slashing their bipartisan spending agreement to prevent a government shutdown to the eleventh hour. Analysts said that the move by Musk to nuke the political system by threatening to sink the deal unless Republicans deny Trump the presidency through a primary challenge was a taste of the kind of role that Musk might play to hold Congress to ransom once Trump is in the White House. Behind the scene though Trump did not get his own demand for Republicans to raise the debt ceiling the president-elect indicated, Musk’s performance demonstrated that he could be a powerful instigator of activity once in office and at the helm of aptly named ‘Department of Government Efficiency’. The Mar-a-Lago consensus was that Musk was a useful club to whack Congress with and a convenient pin to summarily pop when the time came for the dolphins, several of the people said. It looks like a new direction for Trump and could mean he is becoming more thoughtful in his policies, after his first batch of presidency where he constantly faced legislative and image barriers as he went about his work. Back in 2018, Trump stated that he would be glad to close the federal government in case he could not get the funding that he was planning to get from the democrats for construction of the wall on the Mexican border. “I will be the one to pull the plug,” Trump told reporters then, to the chuckles of Pelosi and Schumer of those days. “I will take the mantle. And I will shut it down for border security.”
