The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Friday that he has no plans to speak with Elon Musk, indicating that the president and his former ally could not resolve his dispute on a draft of the tax felling in the short term.
Going to the reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said he was not “thinking about the Tesla CEO.
“I hope you do well with Tesla,” Trump said.
However, Trump said a review of the extensive Musk contracts with the federal government was in order. “We will take a look at everything,” said the president. “It’s a lot of money.”
Trump can get rid of the red S Tesla model that he bought in March after showing Musk’s electric cars on the White House grass, said a White House official, speaking under condition of anonymity.
Musk, meanwhile, did not directly addressed Trump, but maintained his criticisms of the Mass Law on Republican Taxes and Expenses that contains much of Trump’s National Agenda.
In its social media platform X, the amplified Musk comments made by others that Trump’s “great bill” would politically harm Republicans and add to the debt of $ 36.2 billion of $ 36.2 of the nation. He responded “exactly” to a position of another user X who said that Musk had criticized Congress and Trump had responded by criticizing Musk personally.
Musk also declared that it was time for a new political party in the United States “to represent 80 percent in the middle!”
People who have talked to Musk said their anger has begun to go back and think they will want to repair their relationship with Trump, according to a person who has spoken with Musk’s entourage.
The White House statements occurred one day after the two men fought openly in an extraordinary exhibition of hostilities that marked a marked end for a nearby alliance.
Tesla’s shares uploaded on Friday, raising some losses of Thursday’s session, when 14 percent fell and lost $ 150 billion in value, the largest decrease in a single day in the company’s history.
Musk’s high profile allies have remained silent silently during the dispute. But one, the investor James Fishback, asked Musk to apologize.
“President Trump has shown grace and patience at a time when Elon’s behavior is disappointing and frankly disturbing,” Fishback said in a statement.
Musk, the richest man in the world, financed a large part of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Trump named Musk to direct a controversial effort to reduce the size of the Federal Labor and Expenditure.
Trump fined musk at the White House a week ago while completing his role as head of the Government’s efficiency department. Musk cut only approximately half of 1 percent of total expenditure, well below his shameless fans to eliminate $ 2 billion from the federal budget.
Since then, Musk has denounced Trump’s tax bill and spending as an “unpleasant abomination.” His opposition complicates efforts to approve the bill in Congress, where Republicans have a thin majority.
Trump’s bill approved the House of Representatives last month and is now before the Senate, where Republicans say they will make more changes. Non -partisan analysts say the measure would add $ 2.4TR in debt for 10 years.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said he has been sending text messages with Musk and expects the dispute to be resolved rapidly.
“He does not argue with him on how to build rockets and wish he did not discuss me on how CNBC.
‘Very disappointed’
Initially, Trump had been silent while Musk campaigned to torpedo the bill, but broke his silence on Thursday, telling journalists that he was “very disappointed” in Musk.
Musk, who spent almost $ 300 million in last year’s elections, said Trump would have lost without his support and suggested that he should be accused.
Trump suggested that he would terminate government contracts with Musk’s businesses, which include the SpaceX rocket company and its Starlink satellite unit.
The billionaire then threatened to dismantle the Spacex dragon spacecraft, the only US spacecraft capable of sending astronauts to the International Space Station. Later, Musk backed that threat.
Musk had angry when Trump during the weekend revoked his nomination to the ally of Almizcle Jared Isaacman to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States. Two sources with direct knowledge of the dispute said that the staff director of the White House, Sergio Gor, had helped convert Trump against Isaacman by highlighting his past donations to the Democrats.
Musk and Gor had disagreed since the billionaire criticized the rhythm of the hiring of GOR at a March cabinet meeting, the two sources said.
A White House spokesman Steven Cheung praised Gor’s efforts to serve the administration, but did not address his relationship with Musk.
A prolonged dispute could make it difficult for Republicans to maintain Congress control in the middle of the period of next year if Musk retains financial support or other important business leaders of Silicon Valley.
Musk had already said that he planned to reduce his political spending, and on Tuesday, he asked that “all politicians who betray the American people” were fired next year.
His participation in the Trump administration has caused generalized protests in Tesla sites, reducing sales, while investors worried that Musk’s attention was too divided.
