The billionaire businessman has racked up some wins, and a few losses, since becoming a major MAGA power player.

It all happened thanks to Elon Musk. Congress was on a glidepath to heading home for the holidays without much agitation, but the framework of an earlier proposed deal blew up after Musk posted over 150 times on X urging House Republicans to reject what was in place and go back to the drawing board.

Appearing on CNN, former White House official Anthony Scaramucci said Elon Musk was in a "perilous situation" with President-elect Donald Trump after some commentators began suggesting that the tech billionaire was the real incoming president.

In the end, both Musk and Trump failed to kill the bill. Musk did slightly better, getting some of his specific funding proposals, but he failed at the big-picture goal of decimating the budget. Trump,