Cameron Abadi is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy and co-host of FP’s Ones and Tooze podcast. He previously worked at the New Republic and Foreign Affairs and as a correspondent in Germany and Iran. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, the New Yorker, the New Republic, and Der Spiegel.
Man sits at a desk with a hand covering his mouth. In the background are several television and computer screens. In the corner is a red hat with the word "Trump" on it.
Pedestrians sit at a bus shelter where an electronic billboard and a poster display the current U.S. national debt per person and as a nation, in Washington, D.C.
A person's hand is visible as they hold a sign up in front of the marble columns of the U.S. Treasury Department beneath a pale gray sky. The sign is printed in bold text and says: "It's Musk or us. Whose side are you on?"
