{"id":2443828,"date":"2025-06-06T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-trump-may-squash-beef-musk-signals-desire-for-peace-trump-aides-schedule-meeting\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:18:59","slug":"musk-trump-may-squash-beef-musk-signals-desire-for-peace-trump-aides-schedule-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-trump-may-squash-beef-musk-signals-desire-for-peace-trump-aides-schedule-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk, Trump May Squash Beef: Musk Signals Desire for Peace, Trump Aides Schedule Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-trump-may-squash-beef-musk-signals-desire-for-peace-trump-aides-schedule-meeting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2443828&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After a period of public conflict, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk appear to be reconciling. Their disagreement began over Musk&#8217;s criticism of the One Big Lovely Bill Act, which aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-plans-call-with-house-speaker-mccarthy-sunday-on-debt-limit\/\" title=\"Biden to speak with House Speaker McCarthy on debt limit Sunday.\">extend tax cuts<\/a> and modify welfare and military spending. Musk has publicly condemned the bill for being overly large and perhaps damaging to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congresss-4155-page-omnibus-bill-is-a-symbol-of-american-decadence\/\" title=\"Congress\u2019s 4,155-Page Omnibus ... Is a Symbol of American Decadence\">government efficiency<\/a>. Following escalating tensions, including Musk calling the bill &#8220;outrageous&#8221; and Trump threatening to cut Musk&#8217;s government contracts, a White House effort to mitigate the fallout has been initiated. A call between Trump and Musk is anticipated to help negotiate peace, amid contrasting public statements-Trump downplaying the feud while Musk initially threatened drastic measures regarding SpaceX. However, Musk later agreed to reconsider his stance, suggesting both parties are working toward a resolution.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>After a day of feuding, it appears that President Donald Trump and former Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk may be on the path to making up.<\/p>\n<p>Several posts to X by Musk, along with comments by President Trump to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/05\/trump-white-house-aides-signal-a-possible-detente-with-musk-00391502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> on Thursday evening, seemed to confirm that both parties were backing away from their condemnation of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Musk had been publicly critical of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is currently under debate in the Senate. The omnibus bill extends tax cuts Trump and the GOP enacted in 2017, as well as addresses welfare spending (down) and military spending (up).<\/p>\n<p>Musk began objecting to the size of the bill late last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elon-musk-disappointed-by-trump-big-beautiful-bill-doge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>, he &ldquo;was disappointed to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tuberville-democrat-relief-bill-to-spark-inflation-fuel-poverty\/\" title=\"Sen. Tuberville: Democrat \u2018relief\u2019 ... to spark inflation, fuel poverty\">massive spending bill<\/a>, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing. &hellip; I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don&rsquo;t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is probably not inaccurate, but it also doesn&rsquo;t take into account how government works. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/9-billion-doge-cuts-risk-trump-administration-declares-options-table\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While DOGE<\/a> has been around in its current form since January, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >legislative horse-trading<\/a> has been around since time immemorial &nbsp;&mdash; and isn&rsquo;t about to change just because the guy who made electric cars cool and private space travel feasible spent a few months in and around the District of Columbia figuring out how it could operate better.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>But that didn&rsquo;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-jabs-musk-big-beautiful-bill-elon-instantly-fires-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stop Musk<\/a> from escalating the feud in an X post on Tuesday in which he called it &ldquo;outrageous,&rdquo; pork-filled,&rdquo; and &ldquo;a disgusting abomination.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&rsquo;m sorry, but I just can&rsquo;t stand it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1929954109689606359?\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people,&rdquo; he added in a later post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GTRc9Rjled\">https:\/\/t.co\/GTRc9Rjled<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1929984535456035202?\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump responded on Thursday by threatening to cut Musk&rsquo;s contracts with the U.S. federal government and said he was &ldquo;wearing thin&rdquo; at the White House, so he was asked to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon&rsquo;s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,&rdquo; Trump said on . &ldquo;I was always surprised that Biden didn&rsquo;t do it!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Donald J. Trump  06.05.25 02:37 PM EST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IojHzVyg83\">pic.twitter.com\/IojHzVyg83<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From  (@TrumpDailyPosts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpDailyPosts\/status\/1930697556025286693?\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Donald J. Trump  06.05.25 02:37 PM EST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vlq4FwkkpB\">pic.twitter.com\/vlq4FwkkpB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From  (@TrumpDailyPosts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpDailyPosts\/status\/1930697007582384579?\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-democrat-cbos-numbers-show-tremendous-surplus-big-beautiful-bill-coupled-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> went on to say he didn&rsquo;t &ldquo;mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago. This is one of the Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress. It&rsquo;s a Record Cut in Expenses, $1.6 Trillion Dollars, and the Biggest Tax Cut ever given.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If this Bill doesn&rsquo;t pass, there will be a 68% Tax increase, and things far worse than that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Donald J. Trump  06.05.25 04:06 PM EST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cyv9Qw0nyO\">pic.twitter.com\/Cyv9Qw0nyO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From  (@TrumpDailyPosts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpDailyPosts\/status\/1930745968170795303?\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Musk, for his part, threatened to decommission SpaceX&rsquo;s Dragon spacecraft &hellip;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In light of the President&rsquo;s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?\">@SpaceX<\/a> will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NG9sijjkgW\">pic.twitter.com\/NG9sijjkgW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1930718684819112251?\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&hellip; although, it&rsquo;s worth noting, he backed off of this later on Thursday after he was asked to &ldquo;cool off&rdquo; and &ldquo;make peace&rdquo; with the president, including by Trump mega-backer and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good advice.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, we won&rsquo;t decommission Dragon.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1930796810928599163?\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You&rsquo;re not wrong<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1930798791806050496?\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">&#128514;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1930799786514596063?\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Politico reported, &ldquo;White House aides, after working to persuade the president to temper his public criticism of Musk to avoid escalation, scheduled a call Friday with the billionaire CEO of Tesla to broker a peace.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president&rsquo;s response, meanwhile, could be summed up thusly: <em>Feud? What feud?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh it&rsquo;s OK,&rdquo; Trump told Politico in a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going very well, never done better &hellip; The [poll] numbers are through the roof, the highest polls I&rsquo;ve ever had, and I have to go.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While Musk has dealt with Washington before, this is his first rodeo in an adversarial role with politicians; for Trump, this is basically every day that ends in the 25th letter of the alphabet. And both, once you edit out the hyperbole as noise, are correct in their own way.<\/p>\n<p>As for where Musk is right: No, Congress and the White House can&rsquo;t continue on this path endlessly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-karoline-leavitt-pulls-insane-list-usaid-expenditures-reporter-frets-humanitarian-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as DOGE has already sufficiently proved<\/a>. As for where Trump is right: Maybe this isn&rsquo;t as beautiful as everyone would like, but something far worse would happen had the agreements to shove this thing through not been reached.<\/p>\n<p>DOGE and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-jabs-musk-big-beautiful-bill-elon-instantly-fires-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk<\/a> did great work, don&rsquo;t get me wrong. Trump voters and Musk supporters expect DOGE to continue to do good work. This is, let me remind you, the first time we&rsquo;ve had a real department focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-ramaswamy-signal-planned-parenthood-federal-funding-is-on-the-chopping-block\/\" title=\"Musk, Ramaswamy Signal Planned Parenthood Federal Funding Is on the Chopping Block\">government efficiency &#038;mdash<\/a>; and it&rsquo;s only been a few months. The 2024 election may have signaled a &ldquo;vibes shift,&rdquo; but it didn&rsquo;t signal a&nbsp;<em>tectonic<\/em> shift that swept Congress and its 535 constituent members down the Potomac and out to sea.<\/p>\n<p>And also, for those who wish it <em>were<\/em> that easy, let me remind you that we first voted Trump into office in response to a man whose governing philosophy was laid out thusly: &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/01\/obama-state-of-the-union-2014-strategy-102151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I&rsquo;ve got a pen, and I&rsquo;ve got a phone<\/a>.&rdquo; His party, over the past eight years, has learned that which can be done by a pen and a phone can be undone by a pen and a phone.<\/p>\n<p>Our party oughtn&rsquo;t learn the wrong lesson from this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-posts-incredibly-humble-farewell-message-time-doge-comes-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOGE<\/a> may be a small step in the right direction when you look at huge compromise bills, but we need to keep taking those small steps &mdash; and realize that, while movement may be slow, it&rsquo;s still a heck of a lot better than pen-and-phone solutions that can be easily erased.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Musk&#8217;s recent posts on X and Trump&#8217;s remarks to Politico on Thursday night indicated that both are stepping back from their previous criticisms of each other. Musk had openly criticized the One Big Beautiful Bill Act currently being debated in the Senate, which extends tax cuts from 2017 while reducing welfare spending and increasing military funding. He expressed disappointment over the bill&#8217;s size last month, stating it would increase the budget deficit rather than decrease it and undermine efforts by his team at DOGE. Although his concerns may hold some truth, they overlook how government functions; legislative negotiations have always been part of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this tension, Musk intensified his criticism in a post where he labeled the spending bill as &#8220;outrageous,&#8221; &#8220;pork-filled,&#8221; and &#8220;a disgusting abomination.&#8221; He also declared that politicians who betray Americans should be removed from office next November.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Musk&#8217;s comments, Trump threatened to terminate Musk&#8217;s government contracts and suggested he was becoming unwelcome at the White House. Trump claimed cutting these contracts could save billions in federal spending.<\/p>\n<p>Musk retaliated by announcing plans to decommission SpaceX&#8217;s Dragon spacecraft but later retracted this decision after being advised to reconcile with Trump by influential figures like hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, White House aides attempted to mediate between them while Trump downplayed any feud during a conversation with Politico. Both men have their points: Congress cannot continue its current trajectory indefinitely as demonstrated by DOGE&#8217;s work; however, Trump&#8217;s assertion about potential consequences if certain agreements aren&#8217;t reached also holds merit. 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