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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWall Street Journal flames Trump and Musk over 'budget fiasco' and what it threatens for future
The Wall Street Journals editorial board has eviscerated Donald Trump and Elon Musk over this weeks budget fiasco and warned it spells bad omens for 2025.
The president-elect and tech billionaire ally Musk threw Congress into chaos when they toppled Speaker Mike Johnsons bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown.
A second Trump-backed version, which included a suspension of the debt limit, failed spectacularly on Thursday, giving Musk his first taste of political failure.
In a scathing op-ed the Journal, whose parent company Dow Jones is owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corp, said that Trump on the advice of Elon Musk blew up the end-of-session budget bill without a plan for getting another one passed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-journal-flames-trump-043947729.html
hatrack
(61,202 posts)sheshe2
(88,155 posts)It is the enemy within.
Irish_Dem
(59,742 posts)The GOP has aligned with the world autocrats and billionaires.
They are done with democracy. It serves no purpose for them.
Their goals are permanent power and access to all global wealth and resources.
And white male minority rule.
sheshe2
(88,155 posts)Blue_Tires
(56,752 posts)And nothing else matters as long as they get their tax cuts, more deregulation, industry watchdogs eliminated and employee rights gutted, am I right?