Musk said the new bill was 'great' as a government shutdown looms.
What's NewElon Musk voiced support for GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's latest spending bill on Friday, giving him a sigh of relief just hours before a government shutdown could begin.'This is great,' Musk wrote in a post to X, responding to a separate post outlining some of the measures in the new spending bill.
Initially, the latest spending bill was going to be split into three different bills to fund the government, deliver disaster relief to areas struck by hurricanes earlier this year and farm assistance. Massie indicated that the structure of the bill had changed as negotiations continued.
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