The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has eviscerated Donald Trump and Elon Musk over this week’s “budget fiasco” and warned it spells “bad omens” for 2025.
The president-elect and tech billionaire ally Musk threw Congress into chaos when they toppled Speaker Mike Johnson’s bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown.
A second Trump-backed version, which included a suspension of the debt limit, failed spectacularly on Thursday, giving Musk his first taste of political failure.
In a scathing op-ed the Journal, whose parent company Dow Jones is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, said that Trump “on the advice of Elon Musk blew up the end-of-session budget bill without a plan for getting another one passed.”
“There are bad omens here for 2025 and the ability of Republicans to govern,” the board said. “The immediate result has been a fiasco by any measure.”
A greater concern, the board said, is how Trump and his inner circle will govern when he takes office in January. “These are the days of MAGA euphoria and chest-beating. Sue the press. Banish Mike Pompeo because Tucker Carlson says so,” the board said.
The Journal also laid into Musk for failing to recognize that the Senate and White House are both currently controlled by the Democrats.
“Democrats aren’t likely to raise the debt limit to make life easier for Mr. Trump, and if they do, they will want something for it,” the board said.
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