Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has voiced out against Elon Musk’s impact on Capitol Hill spending.
Clinton’s remarks come as House Democrats say that ‘Extreme MAGA’ Republicans are leading the country into a government shutdown.
“If you’re just catching up: the Republican Party, taking orders from the world’s richest man, is on course to shut down the government over the holidays.
“Stopping paychecks for our troops and nutrition benefits for low-income families just in time for Christmas,” Clinton wrote in a post on X.
According to Fox News, the US government will go into partial shutdown at midnight Saturday if there is no agreement to postpone the government funding deadline until March and maintain spending at 2024 levels.
According to the report, Musk expressed strong opposition to the original spending deal negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson with Democrats.
However, the world’s richest man threatened to back a primary challenge to any Republican who voted for it.
Meanwhile, House Republicans on Thursday came out with a revised version, which was much shorter and included both disaster help and a suspension of the debt ceiling for two years, as President-elect Donald Trump had demanded.
However, the plan failed in the House, with several Republicans refusing to support it and Democrats banding together against it, with many appearing dissatisfied with Musk’s apparent influence.
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