After Congress averted a government shutdown with a last-minute deal, it’s become a serious question: who runs the GOP, Donald Trump or Elon Musk? While Trump is about to be sworn in for his second term,

During the Army-Navy football game over the weekend, Elon Musk posted a photo of the giant ... lawmaker could have done from inside Capitol Hill. Musk also used his platform to push for a government shutdown, arguing it would not hurt “critical functions.”

Elon Musk is suddenly very eager to distance himself from a potential government shutdown after he helped tank a bipartisan continuing-resolution deal on Thursday. After assuring users of his social media platform X that a shutdown really wouldn’t be that big of a problem and backing a shutdown over allowing the bipartisan deal to pass,