Elon Musk discovers Trump doesn’t stay bought

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I person been watching, with immoderate grim amusement, Elon Musk discovering the limits of being conscionable different governmental donor. While helium was astatine DOGE, helium virtually could power the Treasury and DOD - helium efficaciously had the IT reins of the full country, and could simply gut things helium hated astatine will. There was a terms for that: it destroyed what was near of his reputation. But it was real, existent powerfulness - being capable to halt payments astatine volition makes you much almighty than the president.

So overmuch for that. These days, Musk is reduced to begging his followers connected X to telephone their senators and congressmen [sic, obviously] to ballot down the Big Beautiful Bill. His nominal crushed is that Donald Trump's fund program volition summation the deficit, but reports bespeak that Musk is annoyed an EV recognition is getting cut. That makes it harder to merchantability Teslas successful an situation wherever it's already hard to merchantability Teslas. Also, Musk whitethorn beryllium annoyed that helium didn't get to enactment past his statutory limit arsenic an unpaid advisor and that the FAA isn't utilizing Starlink, according to Axios.