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Today we're going to talk about Elon Musk's debut into politics and how he overplayed his hand.

And I've got two interviews. I talked to Senator Brian Schatz about Trump's extreme

cabinet nominees and how Democrats should message moving forward. And I'm joined by David

Hogg, the co-founder of March for Our Lives, about his run for DNC Vice Chair. I'm

Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie. Okay, so a lot has happened in the last few days with the government narrowly avoiding a shutdown,

but as expected, there is a ton of misinformation surrounding Elon Musk, pediatric cancer research

funding, and the impending government shutdown.

So here's what actually happened.

Democrats and Republicans had initially negotiated a CR, a continuing resolution,

as a stopgap measure to keep the government funded and open. Pretty standard stuff. At the 11th hour,

President Musk decided to swoop in and run a 20-hour scorched earth pressure campaign torching the

bill. Why? Probably because he's desperate for attention and power and wanted to flex. And

shockingly, Trump was perfectly content to see the spotlight, which I guess is what $400 billion

buys you. So now Republicans have to scramble because Elon says that he'll fund primary

challengers to anyone who doesn't tow the line of dear leader and his human checkbook. Republicans

introduced a new bill after Elon demanded

cuts, only this one stripped a bunch of massively important and bipartisan health care provisions,

like, for example, the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0, which allocated seven more

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