Elon Musk lashed out at Democratic House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries after the congressional spending bill he had insisted on, including a suspension of the debt limit and the removal of a number of concessions to the opposition, tanked in the House of Representatives on Thursday night, leaving the US government hurtling towards another federal shutdown.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s continuing resolution (CR) – which replaced a version he had spent weeks carefully crafting with Democrats after Musk and President-elect Donald Trump abruptly objected to it – was comprehensively voted down by 235 votes to 174.
