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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Musk Bucks Trump

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

CNN

News

3.6857 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Just days after receiving a gold key from the White House, Elon Musk is eviscerating Donald Trump's legislative agenda, calling it a "disgusting abomination." No reaction from the president ... yet. Meanwhile, Trump's 50% tariff on steel and aluminum imports is now in effect. We break down how this will impact you.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now Elon Musk, bucking President Trump.

0:05.0

The tech billionaire is eviscerating the president's legislative agenda, calling it a quote, disgusting abomination.

0:12.0

New reaction and the new reporting live from Capitol Hill.

0:16.0

Doubling down a 50% tariff on steel and aluminum imports is now in effect. We'll break

0:22.8

down how this will impact you. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around

0:28.5

the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and you're in the Situation Room. We start this morning up on Capitol Hill where key hearings for two of President

0:45.3

Trump's cabinet secretaries are getting underway in the House and Senate.

0:49.3

The Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik and the Education Secretary Linda McMahon will testify on their

0:55.2

department's budgets. This, as we're getting new reaction from lawmakers to Elon Musk's

1:00.6

big break with President Trump over his spending bill, and that includes the House Speaker

1:05.5

Mike Johnson, who reached out directly to Musk after he slammed the bill as a, quote, disgusting abomination.

1:13.7

We're expecting to hear directly from Speaker Johnson at any moment now,

1:17.1

as his weekly news conference is about to get underway.

1:20.3

CNN congressional correspondent Lauren Fox is up on Capitol Hill this morning,

1:24.8

and Elena Treene is standing by live over at the White House.

1:27.8

Let's go to Lauren Fox first on the Hill.

1:29.9

Lauren, what are you hearing?

1:33.9

Yeah, well, there was so much frustration yesterday from Capitol Hill.

1:38.4

After that tweet from Musk, we directly heard from Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday where he said

1:44.1

that this is simply a disagreement

1:45.9

between Elon Musk and many House Republicans who backed this legislation just two weeks ago.

1:52.9

This is also a pivotal moment in the United States Senate as they are trying to come together

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