The Government Is Shutting Down Because Elon Musk Has Factories in China

Congress had agreed to a bipartisan year-end omnibus spending bill that included the first COVID relief measures in nine months .

Trump had to be roused to back up his co-president, getting House Speaker Mike Johnson to construct a partisan solution.

House Republicans are vowing to try again today , but they likely need a two-thirds vote on anything today .

Elon Musk’s car company has a significant amount of, well, outbound investment in China .

Aaron Miller : Musk has endorsed building a second Tesla factory in China , where his grip on the electric-vehicle market has loosened amid domestic competition.

Miller : Trump preens as someone determined to “get tough” on China . But he's empowered someone with serious business entanglements in China to seemingly serve as a barrier to any policies related to China over the next four years .