WNBA player Natasha Cloud has taken aim at Elon Musk with a brutal dig about the tech billionaire going ‘back to Africa’ after his and Donald Trump’s failed attempt to enforce a government shutdown.
President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Saturday that averted a government shutdown, bringing a final close to days of upheaval after Congress approved a temporary funding plan just past the deadline.
Musk and president-elect Trump had been leading a Conservative rebellion against that bill, which extends current government funding levels until March 14, after becoming angered by what they perceived as unrelated measures attached to it; including a pay raise for congressional lawmakers and health care policy provisions.
Despite the pair threatening to force out any lawmaker who did not support them, the House eventually passed the bill after dozens of Republicans defied the incoming president and expressed support for it.
And Cloud, who currently plays for the Phoenix Mercury, ripped into South African businessman Musk and other ‘billionaires’ after their bid for a government shutdown failed.
‘So when y’all gone tell Elon to go back to Africa?’ the 32-year-old wrote on X.
WNBA player Natasha Cloud has taken aim at Elon Musk after Donald Trump’s loss in Congress
Trump and Musk’s rebellion against a Democrat-backed funding bill failed over the weekend
Cloud then continued in a separate post: ‘Im so glad ALL these billionaires have no idea how the 3 branches of government work….or how a bill gets passed into law.
‘Shoutout to the 38 Republicans who shot the bill down in the House while being threatened & blackmailed.’
Cloud has previously expressed her disdain for Trump, posting on X after he won last month’s presidential election: ‘Racism, misogyny, and hatred of women are so deeply rooted into everything that is America. Until we fix the roots…it will never grow.’
After Trump and Musk’s defeat, the funding bill will provide $100billion in disaster aid and $10billion in agricultural assistance to farmers.
‘This agreement represents a compromise, which means neither side got everything it wanted,’ Biden said in a statement, adding that ‘it ensures the government can continue to operate at full capacity. That´s good news for the American people.’
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had insisted lawmakers would ‘meet our obligations’ and not allow federal operations to close. But the outcome at the end of a tumultuous week was uncertain after Trump had insisted the deal include an increase in the government’s borrowing limit. If not, he had said, then let the closures ‘start now.’
Johnson’s revised plan was approved 366-34, and it was passed by the Senate by a 85-11 vote after midnight. By then, the White House said it had ceased shutdown preparations.
Cloud has asked when Musk will be told to ‘go back to Africa’ after ripping into him on X
‘There will be no government shutdown,’ said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Johnson, who had spoken to Trump after the House vote, said the compromise was ‘a good outcome for the country’ and that the president-elect ‘was certainly happy about this outcome, as well.’
The final product was the third attempt from Johnson, the beleaguered speaker, to achieve one of the basic requirements of the federal government – keeping it open.
The difficulties raised questions about whether he will be able to keep his job, in the face of angry Republican colleagues, and work alongside Trump and Musk, who was calling the legislative plays from afar.
