Mike Johnson carefully negotiated a bill to keep the government funded past December 20. It collapsed instantly when Musk ...

As Congress prepared to vote on a budget bill to fund government services and avoid a shutdown, Elon Musk posted scores of tweets calling for the bill to be killed.

The furor over avoiding a government shutdown has fueled Republican calls to oust Mike Johnson from the speakership and ...

This holiday season could come with the legislative equivalent of getting coal in your stocking – a government shutdown. Already, a bill aimed at avoiding this fate was rejected by lawmakers.

Elon Musk successfully had a bill killed that ... keep the government funded from now until mid-March, and now, a government shutdown is anticipated to begin Saturday at 12:01 a.m., without ...

Congressional leaders had lined up on Tuesday to approve a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown — before Elon Musk, President-elect Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” injected ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed the notion that Elon Musk is in control of the Republican Party after Musk helped kill a government spending bill last week—which prompted Democrats ...

"My phone was ringing off the hook," Republican Rep. Andy Barr said. "The people who elected us are listening to Elon Musk." ...

Musk began posting on X against a stopgap government spending bill on Wednesday well before Trump weighed in against the legislation.

“No bills should be passed Congress until Jan 20, when @realDonaldTrump takes office. None. Zero,” Musk wrote in a separate post, which read like marching orders to the more sycophantic GOP members, ...

Speaker Mike Johnson may now be forced to cut the nearly $100 billion in aid from the bill after Trump and Musk blocked the measure.

CNN's Erin Burnett delivers commentary on a possible government shutdown due to opposition from Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump on a bipartisan spending package. ERIN BURNETT ...