Musk pressure campaign on CR highlights his growing influence

Elon Musk’s aggressive push against a stopgap measure to prevent a government shutdown received mixed reactions from House Republicans, even as it seemingly ended in success with President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance announcing their own opposition to the measure. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), fired off…