Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump are discovering themselves caught in the midst of an escalating feud between Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, which spilled into the open this week amid more and more angrier social media posts by each males.
Trump’s influential deputy chief of workers Stephen Miller is the newest to seek out himself at odds with the SpaceX and Tesla founder. At one level Miller had reportedly been advising Musk on his political donations, however, based on Politico, it’s unclear the place their relationship stands proper now.
However one factor is obvious, Musk has unfollowed Miller on the social media platform X, which Musk owns. That’s based on the X consumer Large Tech Alert.
The transfer to unfollow Miller — who remains to be following Musk — comes after Musk reportedly employed Miller’s spouse, Katie Miller, away from the Division of Authorities Effectivity, or DOGE, which Musk helped launch earlier this yr, to work for him full-time, the Every day Beast reported.
“Everyone seems to be speaking about it,” mentioned a former Trump to CNN.
Because the feud between Musk and her husband performs out, Katie Miller has been strolling a high quality line—utilizing her X profile to highlight her new employer whereas nonetheless partaking with posts tied to her husband. Her account now reads like a gradual stream of reward for Musk and his corporations, full with a SpaceX rocket because the banner picture and a bio that reads, “spouse of @stephenm.”
On Friday, her solely put up was a laughing emoji reply to a meme depicting Stephen Miller as a Residence Depot worker, shared in response to studies of immigration raids on the retailer chain.
And Miller has been vocal this week about defending Trump’s huge finances measure as Musk has posted more and more extra unstable posts directed at Trump, together with a stunning one Thursday alleging Trump had ties to convicted intercourse offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019.
“Time to drop the actually massive bomb,” Musk mentioned. “[Trump] is within the Epstein information. That’s the actual cause they haven’t been made public.”
“Have a pleasant day, DJT!” he added.
A couple of minutes later he tossed one other loaded volley. “Mark this put up for the longer term. The reality will come out.”
Musk started concentrating on Trump in escalating social media posts after telling CBS Information in an interview final week that he was “upset” on the excessive price of Trump’s “One Large Lovely Invoice.”
“I used to be upset to see the large spending invoice, frankly, which will increase the finances deficit, not simply decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE crew is doing,” Musk mentioned.
“I believe a invoice might be massive or it may be stunning, however I don’t know if it may be each. My private opinion,” he mentioned.
Miller, together with different prime administration officers, has spent a lot of this week defending Trump’s huge finances measure. “The invoice has been public for weeks. All anybody can discover contained in the invoice is a protracted checklist of marketing campaign guarantees stored,” Miller posted on X Friday.
However an inventory of nonpartisan teams, together with the Congressional Funds Workplace, finds the laws would add greater than $2 trillion, and probably over $3 trillion, to the nationwide deficit over the following 10 years.
Miller and different Republican lawmakers hold insisting that the invoice is what Trump promised throughout his presidential marketing campaign.
“The reconciliation invoice cuts taxes, seals the border and reforms welfare. It’s not a spending invoice. There is no such thing as a ‘pork,’” Miller mentioned on X.
“The one ‘new’ spending within the invoice is to defend the homeland and deport the illegals — paid for by elevating visa charges. All the opposite provisions? Large spending cuts. There is no such thing as a ‘pork’ within the invoice. Simply marketing campaign guarantees,” he insisted.
Musk has threatened to assist exchange each lawmaker who votes or voted for the laws. The Home handed it by a razor-thin margin simply earlier than Memorial Day. It’s at the moment underneath debate within the Senate. He additionally referred to as on Individuals to name their lawmakers to “kill the invoice.”
He mentioned on X this week that, not solely would the invoice add trillions to the deficit, however it is going to additionally saddle Individuals with “crushing debt.”
