Elon Musk Flexes His Political Strength as Government Shutdown Looms The world’s richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by promoting false and misleading claims about it.

House Votes to Strip Defense Secretary of Salary as Right Wing Flexes Muscles Little more than three days before a government shutdown, the Republican-led House spent the day adding hard-right proposals to a series of doomed spending bills.