Elon Musk exited the White House this week with little to show for his cost-cutting push and a list of frustrations from his time in the Trump administration.
The tech billionaire announced his departure Wednesday shortly after voicing concerns about the sweeping tax and spending bill backed by Trump and congressional Republicans, which is expected to add trillions of dollars to the national debt.
Additionally, the Trump administration has intensified its standoff with the courts over tariffs in recent days, with top advisors condemning two rulings that sought to block the tariffs from proceeding as planned.
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Elon Musk offered his opinion on the Trump administration in an interview shortly after he departed from the White House, despite initially saying he only wanted to talk about "spaceships," rather than "presidential policy."
In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning," the former Trump adviser told CBS Correspondent David Pogue that he only wanted to talk about "spaceships" when asked about the recent crackdown on foreign student visas, with Pogue mentioning Musk was one of those students at one time. |
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that Americans "aren't interested in bending the knee to a wannabe king," referring to President Trump.
"Donald Trump has learned an important lesson, the American people aren't interested in bending the knee to a wannabe king," Jeffries said on CNN's "State of the Union" to the outlet's Dana Bash.
"It's the reason why Donald Trump actually is the most unpopular president at this point of a presidency in American history," he added. |
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| Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doubled down on his claim that there won't be Medicaid cuts in President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," despite projections that millions of low-income individuals would lose health insurance as a result of the bill.
Johnson, during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," pushed back on independent projections that the bill would lead to 4.8 million who would lose coverage because of work requirements, saying they won't lose it "unless they choose to do so."
"Those 4.8 million people will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so," he told host Kristen Welker. |
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Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought on Sunday pushed back against the idea that a sizable package of Republican priorities that recently made it through the House is going to raise the deficit.
"This bill doesn't increase the deficit or hurt the debt," Vought told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union," responding to earlier comments from tech billionaire Elon Musk.
"In fact, it lowers it by $1.4 trillion," he added. |
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