House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Friday cautiously avoided saying whether Democrats should seize on Elon Musk’s public falling-out with President Donald Trump as an opportunity to forge political ties with the tech billionaire.
Musk and Trump clashed openly on Thursday over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act budget legislation, which is pending in the Senate after narrowly passing the House last week. Musk, aligning himself with the fiscally conservative wing of the Republican Party, criticized the Trump-backed legislation as rife with pork barrel spending and raised alarm over its potential to exacerbate the national debt, which is approaching $37 trillion.
