Elon Musk went on Joe Rogan's podcast to explain, with total confidence and zero evidence, that the government shutdown is happening because blue states are stealing "hundreds of billions" in federal money to buy votes from undocumented immigrants. Joe Rogan agreed, because that's what Joe Rogan does when someone richer than him talks long and loud enough.

"The entire basis for the government shutdown is that… the Trump administration correctly does not want to send massive amounts of, like, hundreds of billions of dollars to fund illegal immigrants in the blue states, in all the states really," Musk said to host Joe Rogan.

What went unmentioned, however, was the actual dispute at the heart of the shutdown: the expiration of subsidies that will dramatically increase health insurance cost

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