And so in this debacle, I learned that Elon Musk is just as willing to lie, or at least say things he has no knowledge about, as is his buddy Donald Trump.

But regardless of his fictions, the Republican sheep in Congress received their MAGA marching orders from Daddy Elon, and the continuing resolution was dead.

The point is the ick factor of an oligarch like Elon Musk having the power to essentially get

Congress to shut down a bill that would have regulated his own companies. Big ick.

I am so damn tired of being lied to.

I don't think I can deny it anymore.

You can't stick to your story if you think it flies.

But I'm not going to buy it anymore.

Hello, my friend, and thank you for listening to the 308th episode of Congressional Dish.

I'm a host, Jennifer Briney.

And I wasn't really planning to do an episode summarizing the end of the 118th Congress

because I wasn't really expecting it to be eventful.

But, just like this Congress has been from start to finish, even the most simple of things

are full of drama.

Just like they started in the 118th Congress,

with a completely unnecessary 15-round vote to even pick their speaker of the House.

They then fired their speaker of the House.

This Congress has been chaos from the very start,

and so, of course, it was chaos until

the very end. And so today I'm going to fill you in on all the drama. I'll let you know what

became law. I'll also let you know what didn't become law, because there was some things that

actually could have helped us that we missed out on in all of this drama. And then I'll just give you some, you know,

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