There’s a mundane reason for the late-term chaos, and it’s called a conflict of interest. By David Dayen December 20, 2024
“But it’s incontrovertible that a billionaire who has a bunch of investments in China and wants to make more all of a sudden disrupted a normal congressional process that was going to restrict that investment with a bunch of lies from his media platform.
And lo and behold, when the new funding bill emerged, the outbound investment feature was dropped. In fact, all traces of provisions related to China were removed from the bill.”
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-12-20-government-shutting-down-elon-musk-factories-china
