The Mark Simone Show, delivering the news before its news on 710 WOR.

Well, the brilliant columnist, a TV star, Liz Peek.

You can read her columns at foxnews.com and the hill.com.

You can see her.

I'll be on with her on Cudlow later today on the Fox Business Network.

Liz Peek, how you doing?

I am great. Thank you for having me.

Hey, Elon Musk, whatever's opinion, these fake newscasters, they love to go.

Elon Musk may be torpedoing the big bill. This may be... He has nothing to do with this big bill.

I mean, nice to have his opinion, but he has nothing to do with this process, does he?

No, but the Democrats are really, really, really hoping that Elon Musk has enough of a following,

enough clout amongst Republicans to whom, after all, he gave $300 million in the last election cycle

to throw a spanner in the works and delay the passage of the big, beautiful bill.

You know, Mark, you've just got to ask yourself, what is going to be their reaction?

If we don't extend the 2017 tax cuts, which is mainly what this bill does,

and the country faces this $4 trillion cliff of increased taxes, is that really what they're

bargaining for? I mean, you know, it's so anti-American, frankly, as to just sort of make you sick to your stomach.

I mean, yes, we need to establish the ground rules for individual investors and also businesses going forward.

We need to get this tax bill done.

It will get done.

I have every confidence.

And Elon Musk having a hisy fit about it is, as you point out, not going to have any impact whatsoever. But let's face it,

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