If it's Wednesday, Elon Musk further escalating his fight with the White House, now calling on Congress to, quote, kill the bill, as President Trump is set to meet with key Republican senators in his latest push to get his signature bill across the finish line.

Plus, hefty new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are now in effect with more potentially

on the way as President Trump lashes out at the Federal Reserve chair after some weaker

than expected jobs data amid growing economic headwits.

And President Trump says he spoke to Russia's President Putin for more than an hour today,

and that Russia will retaliate against Ukraine

for its devastating and surprised drone attacks in the latest sign that this war is far from over. Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Kristen Welker in New York, and we are tracking a flurry of activity on Capitol Hill and at the White House as President Trump and Republican leadership try to keep their conference in line.

After Elon Musk, one of the president's closest and most influential allies called the president's

signature bill a, quote, disgusting abomination that would balloon the deficit and called for the bill's

supporters to be voted out of office.

Mr. Musk going even further this afternoon, posting, call your senator, call your congressman,

bankrupting America is not okay, kill the bill. We are expecting that this hour the president

will meet with a key group of Senate Republicans at the White House about the way forward,

and it comes after the entire Senate Republican conference huddled together this afternoon.

Those meetings taking place on the heels of a new analysis by the nonpartisan congressional

budget office that backed up Musk's concerns. Forecasting that the president's bill,

which narrowly passed the House last week, would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

This morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was caught off guard by Musk's criticisms,

adding that that hasn't been able to get Musk on the phone to talk about it.

And I left on a great note. We were texting one another, you know, happy texts, you know, Monday.

And then, and then yesterday, you know, 24 hours later, he does a 180 and he comes out and opposed the bill. I think he's flat wrong. I think he's way off on this. And I've told him as much. And I've said it publicly and privately. I'm very consistent in that. And I'd love to talk to him this week and I hope he calls him back today. I've talked to President Trump all the time, multiple times a day.

Obviously, we've talked about this.

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