Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on X: "Elon Musk ordered his puppet President-elect and House Republicans to break the bipartisan agreement reached to keep the government open. House Republicans are abdicating their responsibility to the American people and siding with billionaires and special interests."

The billionaire is blowing up plans and taking names as he and the GOP-controlled House start to learn about working with each other.

President-elect Donald Trump, after rejecting House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avoid a government shutdown, worked the phones on Thursday, showing wavering confidence in Johnson and claiming he is aligned with billionaire Elon Musk, who first posted multiple calls to kill the GOP-brokered spending deal.

Musk is the world's richest man, owns one of its biggest communications platforms and is increasingly politically active. Washington is seeing how potent a blend that is.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s threats meant nothing to the 38 Republicans who voted against their spending bill. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why this is “very good news” for America.

Donald Trump has said he backs a government shutdown after he and Elon Musk sank a spending bill with just 48 hours to go before the deadline.

Everyone step aside, Jimmy Fallon has figured it out. The NBC late night host debuted the couple name for Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Elonald. The joke came as part of one of Fallon’s often used he-said,

Democrats have started calling Elon Musk the "co-president" or "shadow president" to Trump. His team is making clear that's not true.

Elon Musk says comments of “President Musk” is part of a media conspiracy to “drive a wedge between” him and Donald Trump, but he hasn’t outright rejected his new moniker. Comments about Musk’s political influence rolled in after he went on a posting spree Wednesday to threaten GOP lawmakers with retribution if they didn’t reject a stopgap budget he felt had too wide of a scope.

Critics have highlighted what they see as the tech mogul's huge influence over Congress and the president-elect.