What Elon got wrong about the CR

What Elon got wrong about the CR With assists from POLITICO’s Congress team But among the more than 90 tweets Elon Musk sent on Wednesday were a number of misleading or outright false claims. — Member pay won’t be raised 40 percent: Both Musk and the X account for his “Department of Government Efficiency” got the facts surrounding lawmaker paychecks wrong: Members of Congress have not had a raise to their $174,000 salaries since 2009, after repeatedly freezing a law implementing automatic cost-of-living increases. — The bill isn’t shielding the Jan. 6 committee: Musk said it was “utrageous” that the bill would block House Republicans from investigating the Jan. 6 select committee established in the prior, Democratic-majority Congress. Rather, it’s language meant to clarify that House data stored on outside digital platforms remains under control of House offices — and thus subject to House rules and procedures for accessing it: “A House office shall be deemed to retain possession of any House data of the House office, without regard to the use” of any particular platform, the bill reads. Sign most Senate Republicans up, from Anthony Adragna and Ursula Perano Rep. Michael McCaul calls Tulsi Gabbard a “baffling” pick to lead intelligence community, from Matthew Choi at the Texas Tribune TRANSITIONS Michaela Kurinsky-Malos will be Rep.-elect Sarah McBride’s deputy chief of staff and comms director.