The Pennsylvania politician who won a Senate seat after a hard-fought race against Trump-backed Dr. Mehmet Oz, is calling for a calmer approach as the country transitions into another Trump presidency. Sen. John Fetterman has urged Democrats to “chill out” ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

Musk, the owner of car manufacturer Tesla and social media platform X, has been tapped by Trump to lead the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, after vocally supporting and financially backing his campaign for president.

A partial government shutdown in Donald J. Trump’s first term was the longest in U.S. history. In 2018, during Donald J. Trump’s first presidency, he said he would be “ proud ” to shut down the government if a deal was not reached that included funding he wanted for his proposed wall along the southern U.S. border.