How many Musk loyalists are in the MAGA caucus in the House?

[kentuck]

Will they stick with him or will they be persuaded to follow Trump on the budget bill?

Did the Senate make enough changes to bill to please Musk?

Some of the House MAGA members may be afraid that Musk will run a primary opponent against them? They are afraid of their voters?

But will it be enough to stop the blitzkrieg coming out of the Senate?

Will they get it passed by the target date of July 4th? Two more days.

It will be interesting to see what Musk has to say about it in the next two days?

How much influence does he carry with the MAGA movement?

[dalton99a]

1. Musk is irrelevant unless he starts handing out serious money

[kentuck]

2. The vote in the House will be telling, in my opinion.

It will give us a hint of how much power Musk has in the MAGA movement?

[ITAL]

3. I doubt there is such a thing

As a Musk loyalist in the House.

[kentuck]

4. Then we'll see if he keeps his word and runs primaries against them.

Would he put money into the campaigns of Democratic opponents?

[ITAL]

6. No

Musk isn't gonna give to Democrats because he wants to shrink government too. The reason he is upset is the bill is it's not cutting spending (I mean it is in certain areas, but it's also massively increasing the deficit).

And I seriously doubt Musk is gonna primary all 200+ Republicans up next year. He's mercurial - within a month he'll be on to something else.

[kentuck]

7. You are right in that he would prefer to cut more.

But he would not have to primary all 200+. He could do like he did the last time - just bankroll a few in the battleground states.

Hopefully, the people will see fit to throw the Republicans out after all that has happened and put the Democrats in charge?

If they do not, what message should we take from the election?

[ITAL]

8. Battleground states don't matter in the House

It's battleground districts. Plenty of the districts that can tilt either way are in "safe" states. And I suppose if he bankrolled a person who wants to cut everything out of the budget, and they won the primary, it might help elect a Democrat in November. On the other hand, I'm sort of leery of that game being played because it also can (and does) backfire badly.

[Omnipresent]

5. He'd be better at giving money to democrats.

Trumps toady will just take his money, like their Furher did.
EV tax credits aren’t something republicans want to deliver on anyway.
That would just put them on the wrong side from their Furher.