Good evening, everyone. We begin tonight with breaking news from Capitol Hill, where just moments ago, Republicans failed to pass a pared-down spending bill that would fund the government and provide aid for hurricane victims and farmers.

It's the end of yet another Republican-manufactured chaotic day and a taste of what's to come.

We are here. Full stop because Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who swear they have a mandate,

tanked a bipartisan bill that would fund the government and provide funding for other things.

More broadly, this fiasco has forced us to ask a question that we'll likely

have to ask on a regular basis over the next year, at least. And which actually should be

familiar to Donald Trump, since it is also the title of an 80s sitcom, namely, who's the boss?

Is it the great and powerful Oz? Elon Musk, who this week has brought us to the brink of yet another

government shutdown by doing something that Trump used to do, namely going on Twitter, which he owns,

and demanding that House Republicans refuse to pass a spending bill, causing them to yapping

clap like train seals and shout, okay, boss, okay? Or is it the guy he owns?

The aforementioned Donald Trump, who ironically has to issue his social media edict on his

daily truth social thing, and wait for someone in the media to screenshot his posts

and post them on Twitter for him.

In the past 24 hours, well, if the past 24 hours, I should say, is any indication.

The answer very clearly is Elon.

Yesterday, Musk showed the world what he got for his $200 million investment into Donald Trump,

you know, besides his fortune ballooning 84% to nearly half a trillion dollars and likely control over the agencies regulating his 300 plus government contracts and, you know, plus a ginormous additional tax cut, by tweaking out on Twitter and demanding that Republicans in Congress, quote, stop the steel of American tax dollars by tanking the bill to fund the government.

And now this was a bipartisan bill that Republicans had previously agreed on.

But Musk didn't care about that. He went even further demanding a total shutdown and a boycott of any legislation until Trump's inauguration on January 20th.

Elon Musk, the foreign-born billionaire who uses ex-Twitter to leverage his personal agenda,

threatened any Republican who voted for the bill with primary challenges, funded by him.

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