This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Elizabeth Peake asking in her column,

What does Musk want?

Musk is broken with the president over?

The big beautiful bill, spending too much or over?

The EVs eliminating the EV discount generously given by the U.S. government these many years.

Liz doesn't have an answer.

There might not be an answer.

As Liz says,

Musk can and might entertain two thoughts at the same time,

but these are contradictory thoughts.

Save money, spend money.

Elon Musk, threatening the America party against the Republican party, to what end? He wants more EV credits or he wants to cut spending more? Unknown.

If he's going to go to the people in 26, he needs one version only.

More of this later.

Which, let's face it, are very, very important to Tesla.

Tesla's not doing very well here or in Europe or in China, as it turns out.

Those EV tax credits were important to EV sales in the United States and

certainly important to Tesla. So the problem with Musk is maybe he can entertain two

thoughts at once. He wants to cut spending, but those tax credits increase spending, basically,

by the federal government, increase our deficit. So it's a little bit unclear what he really

wants.