Elon Musk, President-elect Donald Trump’s self-described “first buddy,” went to great lengths to thwart a last-minute financing deal to avert a government shutdown. The move was a direct challenge to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who unveiled the comprehensive plan Tuesday night.

Now it looks like Musk has successfully destroyed the emergency solution in the cradle – before the vote even took place.

In a manic posting campaign, the world’s richest man bombarded his platform on Wednesday. He also spread misinformation about the contents of the 1,500-page bill – as did his non-governmental commission, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is overseeing cuts to the new Trump administration in government spending and regulations.

Trump himself is against the resolution, according to a joint statement from Vice President-elect JD Vance on Wednesday. Several far-right GOP officials also vowed to vote against it. If Johnson fails to pass a spending plan by December 20th, the federal government will impose a partial shutdown before the holidays. But for Musk and his social media clique, it apparently sounded ideal.

“YES,” Musk commented on an X post from a user who wrote, “Just shut down the government until January 20th.” Subtract everything. We’ll be fine for 33 days.” In his own post, Musk wrote, “No bills should be passed by Congress until January 20th, when @realDonaldTrump takes office.” None. Zero.” (When Trump is inaugurated, Republican majorities will control both houses of Congress.) Elsewhere, Musk again shared a meme with the caption “KILL THE BILL,” in which he hacks at the bill with a sword. In another post he wrote: “Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in two years!”

Musk personally thanked a number of GOP officials, including Davidson, Keith Self, Kevin Kiley and Andy Ogles, many of whom called it an “omnibus” package of excessive spending and giveaways for Democrats.

The funding bill, H.R. 10445, included provisions to provide about $100 billion for relief to help Americans recover from natural disasters over the past two years, about $30 billion for aid to farmers, and federal funds to replace those that collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge Baltimore. It would also have criminalized revenge porn, given the District of Columbia greater control over the area around the defunct Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium to bring the Washington Commanders back to the city, and transparency issues with hotel rates and ticket sales for live events solved and implemented health care reforms, some of which were aimed at reducing the cost of prescription drugs.

More controversially, the bill included a pay raise for members of Congress that was justified as a cost-of-living adjustment, a provision that drew criticism from both sides. It would have increased their income by at most $6,600, a 3.8 percent increase over the $174,000 annual salary most of them receive. Both the official DOGE account and Musk falsely claimed that the raise would be $69,000, or almost 40 percent. Musk, meanwhile, shared a post from a far-right influencer who wrote that the resolution would mandate mask and vaccination requirements. Although there was a section on ensuring pandemic preparedness, which mentioned the need for accelerated vaccine research, there is no wording on mandating their administration, nor does the word “mask” appear.

Musk and DOGE also agreed, spreading the false claim that the bill would allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to build a new NFL stadium in Washington, DC, on the site of RFK Stadium. In fact, the resolution said just the opposite, establishing an agreement that “the District may not use federal funds for on-campus stadium purposes, including training facilities, offices and other structures necessary to support a stadium.”

More dubious complaints stemming from the 6 Capitol riot. Trump has said Cheney belongs in prison, and House Republicans released a report yesterday recommending that the FBI investigate Cheney for alleged witness tampering with former Trump White House adviser Cassidy Hutchinson’s congressional testimony . Some Republicans also accused the resolution of funding “censorship activities” because it expanded support for the Global Engagement Center, an agency within the State Department tasked with “identifying and combating propaganda and disinformation efforts that target it.” “to undermine or influence politics, security or stability”. of the United States.”

With the legislation seemingly dead from the start, Speaker Johnson now has an incredibly narrow window of opportunity to reach an agreement and avert a shutdown. His backup plan would reportedly be to vote on a new “clean” federal funding bill, stripping disaster and agricultural aid and other expensive elements of the bill and delaying those issues until next year. But cutting some of that spending could cost Democratic support, and some Republican hardliners could still oppose the scaled-back deal.

Musk took a victory lap on Wednesday as the chances of Congress passing the original bill diminished, posting about how X – and not Musk himself – had supposedly saved the American people from wasteful government spending. “Your elected officials heard you and now the terrible bill is dead,” he wrote. “The voice of the people has won!”

Or at least the voice of the richest man in the world.