Elon Musk's vocal opposition to a funding bill has raised questions about his influence and standing within Donald Trump's inner circle. While Musk actively criticized the bill on social media, Trump and his advisors remained relatively silent, prompting speculation about the billionaire's motivations and the extent of his coordination with the former president.
Trump’s “shadow president” on Wednesday after the billionaire Tesla CEO railed repeatedly against the bill in a social media spree, before the president-elect“It’s incredibly risky,” Salama, a national politics reporter who covered the White House during Trump’s first administration, said of Musk’s maneuvering
“And amazingly, his advisors have been remarkably silent on why it took Donald Trump, or even Vice President-elect JD Vance, so long to weigh in on this issue,” she continued. “Whereas Elon Musk ... was tweeting all day long about this, as was Vivek Ramaswamy.”to help elect Trump. The president-elect subsequently tapped Musk, along with entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead a new non-government advisory group, the Department of Government Efficiency .
She said it wasn’t clear if Musk and Ramaswamy had coordinated in advance with Trump before speaking out so vocally against the funding bill. “Advisers told us that they did kind of receive Trump’s blessing, that they were on the same page, but they really couldn’t give much more of an explanation as to why Elon Musk was just kind of going full-throated, you know, rejection of the bill so early on, without us hearing from Trump,” she said.“And so he is definitely playing a risky game. Donald Trump typically likes to kind of be his own spokesman,” she added. “We know that.
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