Elon Musk is suddenly very eager to distance himself from a potential government shutdown after he helped tank a bipartisan continuing-resolution deal on Thursday. After assuring users of his social media platform X that a shutdown really wouldn’t be that big of a problem and backing a shutdown over allowing the bipartisan deal to pass,

The world’s richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by promoting false and misleading claims about it.