He pays lip service to cutting spending but he doesn't really care about it. He's told people he's not worried about a U.S. debt crisis as he'll be out of office by then. And he's got stuff he wants to spend a lot of money on, like deporting millions of immigrants!

Germany's AfD, with its own plan for mass deportations, is hoping to replicate the MAGA movement's success in upcoming elections.

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.

Donald Trump has clapped back at jokes that he is not really in charge, insisting that his new right-hand-man Elon Musk will never be president. Musk, who has been christened the ‘first buddy’ has been spending a lot of time with Trump since his election victory.