Elon now has real political power to flex and as we know he is a dumbass extraordinaire. Now he's come out railing against a stopgap funding bill that's chock full of pork because that's how you grease the skids
We are in for a rough four years
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/18/elon-musk-government-shutdown-bill-doge
The short answer is the chuds love him and so he can put pressure on reps with the bully pulpit
Musk I think is happy to be a sycophant, he spends basically all his time on Twitter grovelling for attention, I don't see him taking issue with playing second fiddle to trump. We will see