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House Speaker Mike Johnson Has a New Boss, and It’s Not Trump
It sure looks like Elon Musk has engineered a takeover of the White House
Well, the chaos got kickstarted this week as the Speaker of the House announced a deal to keep the government open until March with conditional funding negotiated with the Democrats. He needs their votes to override the destructors in his party who only live to shut everything down.
That agreement did some things that normally would be viewed as good for Trump voters, including money for FEMA disaster relief in North Carolina and other states decimated by hurricane Helene. But no, that was an unacceptable concession to the Dems, screamed the Freedom Caucus goons, verifying that the right could care less about all their MAGA rubes.
And then President-elect Elon Musk and his toadie Vivek Ramaswamy marched in and declared the deal dead and that the government must close down just days before Christmas. Somehow no one in the Republican Party seems to care that neither of them were elected to anything and that Musk cannot become President because he is an immigrant, a pesky fact.
Even Trump, the shadow President-elect, probably knows that shutting down things at Christmas time is politically a very bad look, but Musk, who recently bought the Party with some spare change he had lying around, started ordering Mike Johnson around, despite having exactly zero right to do so.