President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk played a key role this week in killing a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, railing against the plan in a torrent of more than 100 X posts that included multiple false claims.

Elon Musk led a fight on social media against a congressional bill preventing government shutdown. Here's what to know about the now dead bill.

Strategists and some legislators have suggested Musk is holding the reins of government instead of Trump, following a series of his posts on his social platform X worked to tank the funding bill that would have kept the government open until March.