"With hours left before the U.S. government was slated to run out of money last week, Elon Musk and Donald Trump took to social media to strong-arm the House GOP into abandoning a bipartisan deal to keep the government open."
"The Musk-Trump attempt... to scupper legislation needed to keep government functioning... turned out to be a ham-fisted effort at arm-twisting that ended up alienating core parts of the Trump congressional coalition."
"A day after the Musk-Trump ultimatum was issued, an opportunistic alliance of Democrats and ultraconservative Republicans rejected the legislation Trump's team had demanded..."
"Trump emerged from the fight bruised and, arguably, weakened. But so did House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has ended up alienating the incoming president - and his Musk-ovite henchman."
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