The seeds of trouble between the duo were sown after Musk denounced Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill. The president initially held his tongue while Musk campaigned to torpedo the bill, saying it would add too much to the nation’s $36.

Tesla Inc. warned that provisions in President Donald Trump’s $3.4 trillion fiscal package will pose meaningful challenges for the EV maker in the next several months.

President Donald Trump took a break from his bitter public feud with Elon Musk by offering support to Tesla in an early morning post on Truth Social.

Amid a messy public falling out with Trump, Musk claimed in a since-deleted tweet from June the president was in the Epstein files.

Elon Musk criticized Trump's revised spending bill, especially its impact on clean energy production, in multiple X posts over the weekend.

The timing was no coincidence. On July 3, Congress passed President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping package that includes massive spending cuts, the end of clean energy subsidies, and controversial changes to social safety net programs. Trump signed the bill into law on July 4.