Trump says he has no plans to speak to Musk as feud persists

 President Donald Trump said connected Friday that helium has nary plans to talk with Elon Musk, signaling the president and his erstwhile state mightiness not resolve their feud over a sweeping tax-cut measure immoderate clip soon.

Addressing reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said helium wasn't "thinking about" the Tesla CEO.

"I anticipation helium does good with Tesla," Trump said.

However, Trump said a reappraisal of Musk's extensive contracts with the federal government was successful order. "We'll take look at everything," the president said. "It's a batch of money."

Trump may get escaped of the reddish Tesla Model S that helium bought successful March after showcasing Musk's electrical cars connected the White House lawn, a White House official said, speaking connected information of anonymity.

Musk, for his part, did not straight address Trump but kept up his disapproval of the monolithic Republican taxation and spending measure that contains overmuch of Trump's home agenda.

On his social-media level X, Musk amplified remarks made by others that Trump's "big beauteous bill" would wounded Republicans politically and adhd to the nation's $36.2 trillion debt. He replied "exactly" to a station by different X idiosyncratic that said Musk had criticized Congress and Trump had responded by criticizing Musk personally.

Musk besides declared it was clip for a caller governmental enactment successful the United States "to correspond the 80% successful the middle!"

People who person spoken to Musk said his choler has begun to recede and they deliberation helium volition privation to repair his narration with Trump, according to 1 idiosyncratic who has spoken to Musk's entourage.

The White House statements came 1 time aft the 2 men battled openly successful an extraordinary display of hostilities that marked a stark extremity to a close alliance.

Tesla stock roseate connected Friday, clawing backmost immoderate losses from Thursday's session, when it dropped 14% and mislaid $150 cardinal successful value, the largest single-day diminution successful the company's history.

Musk's high-profile allies person mostly stayed soundless during the feud. But one, capitalist James Fishback, called connected Musk to apologize.

"President Trump has shown grace and patience astatine a clip erstwhile Elon's behaviour is disappointing and frankly downright disturbing," Fishback said successful a statement.

Musk, the world's richest man, bankrolled a ample portion of Trump's 2024 statesmanlike campaign. Trump named Musk to caput a arguable effort to downsize the national workforce and slash spending.

Trump feted Musk astatine the White House a week agone arsenic helium wrapped up his relation arsenic caput of the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk chopped lone about half of 1% of full spending, acold abbreviated of his brash plans to axe $2 trillion from the national budget.

Since then, Musk has denounced Trump's tax-cut and spending bill as a "disgusting abomination." His absorption is complicating efforts to walk the measure successful Congress wherever Republicans clasp a slim majority.

Trump's measure narrowly passed the House of Representatives past period and is present earlier the Senate, wherever Republicans accidental they volition marque further changes. Nonpartisan analysts say the measurement would adhd $2.4 trillion successful indebtedness implicit 10 years.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said helium has been texting with Musk and hopes the quality is resolved quickly.

"I don't reason with him astir however to physique rockets and I privation helium wouldn't reason with maine astir however to trade authorities and walk it," Johnson said connected CNBC.

'Very disappointed"

Trump had initially stayed quiescent portion Musk campaigned to torpedo the bill, but broke his soundlessness connected Thursday, telling reporters helium was "very disappointed" successful Musk.

Musk, who spent astir $300 cardinal successful past year's elections, said Trump would person mislaid without his enactment and suggested helium should beryllium impeached.

Trump suggested helium would terminate government contracts with Musk's businesses, which see rocket institution SpaceX and its outer portion Starlink.

The billionaire past threatened to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, the lone U.S. spacecraft susceptible of sending astronauts to the International Space Station. Musk aboriginal backed disconnected that threat.

Musk had been angered when Trump over the weekend revoked his nomination of Musk state Jared Isaacman to caput the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Two sources with nonstop cognition of the quality said White House unit manager Sergio Gor had helped turn Trump against Isaacman by highlighting his past donations to Democrats.

Musk and Gor had been astatine likelihood since the billionaire criticized Gor's gait of hiring astatine a March furniture meeting, the 2 sources said.

A White House spokesperson, Steven Cheung, praised Gor's efforts to unit the medication but did not code his narration with Musk.

A prolonged feud could marque it harder for Republicans to support power of Congress successful adjacent year's midterm elections if Musk withholds fiscal enactment oregon different large Silicon Valley concern leaders region themselves from Trump.

Musk had already said helium planned to curtail his governmental spending, and connected Tuesday helium called for "all politicians who betrayed the American people" to beryllium fired adjacent year.

His engagement with the Trump administration has provoked wide protests astatine Tesla sites, driving down income portion investors fretted that Musk's attention was excessively divided.