Elon Musk and Donald Trump are Fighting
Who would’ve thought that Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who spent everyday together like best friends, would end up publicly getting into it?
I personally thought it was going to take a year to get here but I guess they’re just both too insufferable to tolerate each other!
On today’s news, let’s talk about the growing tension between Trump and Elon and what that means for Americans.
Trump is trying to pass the “big beautiful bill” which is riddled with cuts to important programs for poor working class people. The goal is the funnel the extra money from all of those cuts into more tax cuts for the rich.
It also includes enhanced immigration enforcement (and loads of money to back it too).
Although Elon supported Trump’s second presidential campaign with at least $250 million and worked in his administration as a senior advisor, he publicly said that he is “disappointed” by the bill.
While talking on CBS, Elon said it is a “massive spending bill” that will only increase the federal deficit and “undermine his work” at DOGE.
I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful, Musk said. But I don’t know if it could be both.
The morning after the interview aired, Trump backed his agenda at the Oval Office and basically blamed the bad parts of the bill to “negotiation”.
I’m not happy about certain aspects of it, but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it, Trump said.
Republicans have successfully passed the bill through the house and it’s now getting debated in the Senate. The thing, is, Republican lawmakers actually agree with Elon’s sentiment.
I sympathize with Elon being discouraged, said Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. Johnson added that he was “pretty confident” there was enough opposition “to slow this process down until the president, our leadership, gets serious” about reducing spending.
This isn’t the only element of this story. This comes after Elon announced that he is taking a step back from his government work and rededicating himself to Tesla and SpaceX. He said that he’s going to reduce his political spending, because he thinks he’s “done enough”.
He originally hoped that DOGE would generate $1 trillion on spending cuts, but he’s fallen pretty short of his goal target. His excuse:
The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized… I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least. - Elon Musk to WaPo
The problem though, is that Elon’s latest criticism is that it could bolden Republicans ho want bigger spending cuts. People like Republican Senator Mike Lee said that he also added his own take on the measure, saying that there was “still time to fix it”.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, its preliminary estimate showed that the tax provisions would increase federal deficits by $3.8 trillion over the decade.
The changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other services would reduce a little more than $1 trillion over the same time, making it pretty ineffective it saving money.
Not to mention the an amount of working class and poor Americans who would simply die due to the Medicaid and food stamp cuts alone.
Republicans say that economic growth would allow the bill to be deficit neutral. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget calculates that the bill would add $3 trillion to the debt including interest over the next decade.
In the end, the rift between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is more than just a clash of egos — it’s a public unraveling of a political alliance that once seemed unstoppable.
As Elon distances himself from government work and criticizes Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” he’s exposing real fractures within the conservative movement, especially around fiscal responsibility and the treatment of working-class Americans.
The proposed legislation, riddled with deep cuts to essential services and ballooning tax breaks for the wealthy, has sparked concern not only among Democrats but within the Republican Party itself.
With a growing number of lawmakers echoing Musk’s warnings about the bill’s impact on the deficit and public health, this showdown may have serious consequences—not just for Musk and Trump, but for millions of Americans who could be left bearing the cost.
It’s the game of whack a mole. Not really fighting. They just appear to be fighting so they can each claim victory for Trump to the public and Musk to Tesla and SpaceX. The comments are so they can seem at odds, when they actually colluded to steal Trillions of dollars and take private information they can use to influence their naysayers.
It only appears at odds. They stole trillions and are pretending like they are saving the taxpayers money.
More tax cuts for the wealthy. Yes. But unfortunately and perhaps more so, to fund massive military expenditures in preparation for WW III,