Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mentioned Thursday that she thinks President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s falling out was predictable due to the pair’s outsized egos.
“You know, I would say that this was something that was a long time coming, where we’ve been seeing that these two huge egos were not long for being together in this world as friends,” Ocasio-Cortez instructed a Spectrum Information reporter close to the Capitol.
Lawmakers from either side of the aisle have been weighing in on the rising feud because it dramatically erupted Thursday.
“Oh, man, the girls are fighting, aren’t they?” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned with a broad grin. “We’ll see what the impacts are of it legislatively.”
Trump and Musk have publicly attacked one another all through the explosive finish to their beforehand shut relationship, after fissures started to indicate in current days as Musk took intention the Home GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
The tax and spending measure — a key element of the president’s home coverage agenda for his second time period — narrowly handed the Home final month and is at the moment up for assessment within the Senate.
Musk, who just lately left his position in Trump’s administration underneath the White Home’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), has argued that the Trump-backed invoice would not reduce spending sufficient and can improve the federal debt.
Trump, in the meantime, instructed that Musk was upset the proposal would not embrace subsidies for electrical automobiles that will profit Tesla, the automaker Musk owns.
Musk supplied a peace sign late Thursday that the 2 had been higher off as allies, however Trump mentioned he was able to promote or give away his Tesla, seemingly signaling a everlasting break up.
