Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) stated 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 advised a Spectrum Information reporter close to the Capitol.
Lawmakers from each 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 stated 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 latest days as Musk took goal the Home GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
The tax and spending measure — a key part of the president’s home coverage agenda for his second time period — narrowly handed the Home final month and is at present up for overview within the Senate.
Musk, who not too long ago left his function in Trump’s administration beneath the White Home’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), has argued that the Trump-backed invoice does not lower spending sufficient and can improve the federal debt.
Trump, in the meantime, instructed that Musk was upset the proposal does not embrace subsidies for electrical automobiles that may profit Tesla, the automaker Musk owns.
Musk supplied a peace sign late Thursday that the 2 have been higher off as allies, however Trump stated he was able to promote or give away his Tesla, seemingly signaling a everlasting break up.
