Elon Musk voiced support for GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson 's latest spending bill on Friday, giving him a sigh of relief just hours before a government shutdown could begin. "This is great," Musk wrote in a post to X, responding to a separate post outlining some of the measures in the new spending bill.

Congressional leadership on Wednesday unveiled legislation to punt the government funding deadline down the road, but that bill was pronounced dead only hours after it was revealed.