Phoenix Mercury guard Natasha Cloud took a shot at Elon Musk and different billionaires in posts on social media on Sunday after the passage of a stopgap funding invoice to forestall a authorities shutdown.
Musk and President-elect Donald Trump led the conservative rebellion towards the preliminary plan to avert a partial shutdown, a bipartisan deal that got here from negotiations between the highest two Democrats and Republicans in each congressional chambers.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks with now-President-elect Trump throughout a marketing campaign occasion on the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/Washington Post through Getty Images)
That invoice, 1,547 pages, would have prolonged present authorities funding ranges till March 14. However, GOP hardliners had been angered by what they noticed as unrelated measures connected to the invoice, like a pay increase for congressional lawmakers, well being care coverage provisions and laws geared toward revitalizing RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.
It was scrapped as Trump and Musk threatened to pressure out of workplace any lawmaker who didn’t assist pairing a CR with motion on the debt restrict.
It brought on an enormous controversy within the political area hours earlier than the House finally handed the invoice.
Cloud weighed in days later.
Phoenix Mercury guard Natasha Cloud (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports/File)
“So when y’all gone inform Elon to return to Africa?” Cloud wrote on X.
“Im so glad ALL these billionaires do not know how the three branches of presidency work….or how a invoice will get handed into regulation. Shoutout to the 38 Republicans who shot the invoice down within the House whereas being threatened & blackmailed.”
All Democrats voted in favor of the invoice, besides Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who voted “current.”
Cloud has been outspoken in regards to the U.S. previously. After Trump gained the election, she took a swipe at ladies who voted for the Republican candidate.
“The privilege of celebrating rn is strictly what’s fallacious with us as individuals,” she added. “I’m really frightened about my elementary human rights.
Phoenix Mercury guard Natasha Cloud (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports/File)
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“Racism, misogyny, and hatred of ladies are so deeply rooted into all the things that’s America. Until we repair the roots…it’s going to by no means develop.”
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