X owner and tech billionaire Elon Musk has spent the week slowly increasing his angry posts about President Donald Trump's 2026 budget bill, hitting out because of the additions it makes to the deficit. By Thursday, however, the opposition exploded — and now Musk is separating from top allies of Trump's.
CNN reporter Hadas Gold revealed that Musk has unfollowed on X White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and far-right podcaster Charlie Kirk. It happened after Miller was on Kirk's show on Thursday, Gold said.
A clip of Miller's call into Kirk's streaming show captured the aide saying he was "saddened" by Musk's abandonment of Trump.
"Nothing like this has ever been done before in the history of the conservative movement. This bill is electric. It is that good. It saddens me that there have been attempts to misportray it so severely," Miller claimed.
Musk has cited estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), stating that the bill would add $2.4 trillion to the national deficit, as reported by the Associated Press on Wednesday. Musk has spoken out against deficit spending.
"To save this country, you have to be able to govern this country," Miller said on Kirk's show. "All of these highly technical bureaucratic complaints... fake scores of tax cuts and everything else, are all born not from policy disagreement, but from a fear of winning."
During his Thursday press conference, Trump falsely claimed that Democrats control the CBO, which is non-partisan and was established by Congress in 1974.