{"id":16937,"date":"2024-12-19T20:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T19:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/elon-musk-debuts-grip-on-washington-by-sinking-spending-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T20:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T19:39:32","slug":"elon-musk-debuts-grip-on-washington-by-sinking-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/elon-musk-debuts-grip-on-washington-by-sinking-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk debuts grip on Washington by sinking spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X owner and billionaire leveraged his platform to amplify false claims about the bill, effectively killing it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/19\/what-is-the-debt-ceiling\">What is the debt ceiling?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using the power of the social media platform he owns and the threat of spending millions against Republicans in primaries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> effectively tanked a congressional spending bill that would have kept the government running.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s richest man again flexed the muscle he gained during the 2024 election, in which he spent big to help elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and spread of rightwing rumors on X. Since the spending bill was introduced, Musk has fired off tweet after tweet attacking it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/18\/elon-musk-false-claims-cr-00195252\">amplifying false claims<\/a> about what it includes and dooming its fate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/19\/elon-musk-trump-government-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/672d39e3079a73a781d66ecdc6bdc2f45a4d2829\/187_207_4554_2732\/master\/4554.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=73569fd486c169869570a2403b007e61\" title=\"Elon Musk debuts grip on Washington by sinking spending bill\" \/>X owner and billionaire leveraged his platform to amplify false claims about the bill, effectively killing it<br \/>\nWhat is the debt ceiling?<br \/>\nUsing the power of the social media platform he owns and the threat of spending millions against Republicans in primaries, Elon Musk effectively tanked a congressional spending bill that would have kept the government running.<br \/>\nThe world\u2019s richest man again flexed the muscle he gained during the 2024 election, in which he spent big to help elect Donald Trump and spread of rightwing rumors on X. Since the spending bill was introduced, Musk has fired off tweet after tweet attacking it, amplifying false claims about what it includes and dooming its fate. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X owner and billionaire leveraged his platform to amplify false claims about the bill, effectively killing it What is the debt ceiling? Using the power of the social media platform he owns and the threat of spending millions against Republicans in primaries, Elon Musk effectively tanked a congressional spending bill that would have kept the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/elon-musk-debuts-grip-on-washington-by-sinking-spending-bill\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk debuts grip on Washington by sinking spending bill<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}