Former GOP chair suggests Musk is steamrolling 'too old' Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : It's Trump who will become the oldest president in U.S. history.
48% : Michael Steele hit out amid lawmakers' harsh rebukes of Trump after the tech billionaire appeared to play a major role earlier this week via X to kill the first bipartisan stopgap government funding deall floated by Republican House speaker Mike Johnson.
43% : But Trump at the same time has also prioritized more tax cuts in his second term, which tax experts say could add another $4 trillion to the U.S. debt over the next decade.
36% : Trump pushed for, but failed to win, a lifting of the debt ceiling as part of the funding deal, even though he has vowed to cut, not increase, government debt.
29% : Trump, 78, has repeatedly pummeled Biden over the years as a doddering old man, even though the president is only four years older than the president-elect.
27% : During his last administration Trump referred to airports during America's Revolutionary War.
21% : The bill to fund the government through mid-March was the third attempt within two days to avert a shutdown, afer Musk and Trump ordered the first one scrapped, and the second package went down to defeat.
6% : Trump issued a statement agreeing with his billionaire backer only after Musk launched the initial attacks, leading some to mock Trump as Musk's obsequious vice president.

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