How Elon Musk is influencing the government shutdown

The Biden administration is putting the onus on Congress to reach a funding deal that can pass with just days before a possible shutdown could take effect. However, President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have expressed opposition to the bipartisan deal, throwing congressional leadership into a last-minute frenzy to address concerns — or reach a new deal.
Elon Musk’s government shutdown, a sentence that even a year ago would have seemed completely bizarre. But not now. Not after images like that. Because the man who has been by Trump’s side nearly every day since the election and since that moment at a rally, is pushing the country to the brink of a shutdown. He is going after the House speaker’s funding deal just days before the deadline….