WNBA star takes aim at Elon Musk, rips billionaires after funding bill gets passed

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Phoenix Mercury guard Natasha Cloud took a shot at Elon Musk and other billionaires in posts on social media on Sunday after the passage of a stopgap funding bill to prevent a government shutdown.

Musk and President-elect Donald Trump led the conservative rebellion against the initial plan to avert a partial shutdown, a bipartisan deal that came from negotiations between the top two Democrats and Republicans in both congressional chambers.

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks with now-President-elect Trump during a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Jabin Botsford/Washington Post via Getty Images)

That bill, 1,547 pages, would have extended current government funding levels until March 14. However, GOP hardliners were angered by what they saw as unrelated measures attached to the bill, like a pay raise for congressional lawmakers, health care policy provisions and legislation aimed at revitalizing RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. 

It was scrapped as Trump and Musk threatened to force out of office any lawmaker who did not support pairing a CR with action on the debt limit.

It caused a huge controversy in the political arena hours before the House eventually passed the bill.

Cloud weighed in days later.

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Phoenix Mercury guard Natasha Cloud (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports/File)

"So when y’all gone tell Elon to go back to Africa?" Cloud wrote on X.

"Im so glad ALL these billionaires have no