Axios - Elon Musk is arguably the most powerful person in business, the most powerful man in media and, at least at this moment, the most powerful man in politics. This much power, across this many pillars of society, is without precedent. Musk yesterday single-handedly, his voice amplified by his daylong bombardment of scores of tweets on his X platform, sank a 1,547-page, bipartisan House spending bill aimed at preventing a government shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. It’s a breathtaking preview of the new power centers that will rewire Washington beginning with Trump’s inauguration 32 days from now.
Trump calls for abolishing the debt ceiling as government shutdown looms
Roll Call - The debate over some of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks has exposed the careful path some Republican senators will be walking to satisfy the president-elect’s demand for loyalty and navigate his allies’ threats to recruit primary challengers to lawmakers deemed insufficiently supportive. GOP senators who oppose his Cabinet nominees ought to face a primary from the right “if they’re unreasonable,” Trump said at a Monday news conference at Mar-a-Lago. “If they’re opposing somebody for political reasons or stupid reasons, I would say … they probably would be primaried,” he said.
Republican senators who’ve expressed even mild misgivings about some of Trump’s announced nominees have already endured blowback from MAGA loyalists. Sen. Mike Rounds’ recent praise of outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray netted the South Dakota Republican a warning from Charlie Kirk, an influential pro-Trump activist: “Don’t be surprised, Mike Rounds, when you get a primary challenge.”
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