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President Donald Trump appears to have finally turned on Elon Musk over the tech billionaire's scalding criticism of the big, beautiful bill that Trump wants Congress to pass.

At a presser, House Speaker Mike Johnson

said straight out that Trump had told him he's displeased with Musk, a striking glimpse into the

rift that's now dividing the two men. This comes as the Congressional Budget Office just

released some brutal new numbers on the House GOP bill, showing that it'll add even more to the

deficit and kick many more off of health coverage than previously thought. So how's all this

playing with the public? The progressive firm Data for Progresses just released new polling

showing that the GOP bill is deeply unpopular, but that it's still not quite breaking through with the

public. Can the Trump Musk Rift help with that? We're talking about all this with Danielle Diceroth,

the executive director of Data for Progress. Thanks for coming on, Danielle. Thanks so much for

having me back, Greg. To catch people up, earlier this week, Musk unloaded on the GOP bill, which has passed the

House but is bogged down in the Senate.

Musk called it a disgusting abomination that will explode the deficit.

Here's what Mike Johnson had to say about all this.

I've talked to President Trump, you know, all the time, multiple times a day.

Obviously, we've talked about this. As you know, all the time, multiple times a day. Obviously, we've talked about this. He's, as you know, he's not delighted that Elon did a 180 on that. But look, I don't know what happened in 24 hours. Everybody can draw their own conclusions about that, okay? But I look forward to talking to my friend about it again, and I'm not upset about it.

I watched the video of this, and Mike Johnson kind of grinned while he said that Trump was not delighted with Musk, which I take to mean that he's in a raging fury about it. Danielle, this is

consuming Washington, which I think has the capacity to break through a bit, at least getting through

to people the

idea that this bill will explode the deficit and Trump doesn't seem to care. What do you think?

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