Elon Musk’s complaints with the Trump administration extend beyond the expenditure level in the president’s signing bill, the ABC News sources say.
Multiple people who have spoken with the president and Musk described a wide gap in a variety of recent movements by the administration.
Musk has privately expressed frustration on a part of the expense bill that would reduce the fiscal credit of electric vehicles, said several people who have spoken with the billionaire.
After the November elections, Musk asked to end the tax credit, but more recently, his company, Tesla, has become a vocal opponent to eliminate the provision.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk attend a press conference at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 30, 2025.
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“The abruptly end of the Fiscal Energy credits would threaten the energy independence of the United States and the reliability of our network,” the company published on social networks.
Musk had also become more and more frustrated with the progress of the Trump administration that surprised artificial intelligence agreements with their OpenAi competitor, the sources tell ABC News.
Behind the scene, Musk raised objections on an agreement that did not include his AI start company, but finally advanced, the sources said.
Another voltage source: the withdrawal of the nomination of the Almizcle Jared Isaacman’s ally as NASA administrator during the weekend, according to sources that declared that Musk was deeply disappointed by the measure.
There have also been deep disagreements in commercial policy. In April, Musk called the commercial advisor Peter Navarro a “fool” and “darker than a sack of bricks” in a series of Publications in X.
On Tuesday, Musk resorted to X to criticize the financing bill to advance in Trump’s legislative agenda, qualifying it as “unpleasant abomination.” He continued attacking the bill in a burst of positions X on Tuesday night until Wednesday morning.
“Gigantic expenses invoices are bankrupt to the United States! The musk wrote In a publication.
The White House declined to comment. A Musk representative did not respond to a request for comments.
Axios for the first time reported some of these details.
