'I lament that': Mike Johnson 'disappointed' in Elon after spending bill spat

House Speaker Mike Johnson reacted with disappointment after former DOGE administrator Elon Musk called President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" a "disgusting abomination."

Musk unloaded on the spending bill in a Monday post on X.

"I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore," the world's richest man said. "This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it."

Johnson later reacted to Musk's condemnation of the legislation.

"It's very disappointing, okay? I've come to consider Elon a good friend," the speaker told CNN's Manu Raju. "But with all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the One Big Beautiful Bill."

"We had a long conversation yesterday. He and I spoke for, I think, more than 20 minutes on the telephone," he continued. "And I extolled all the virtues of the bill. And he seemed to understand that."

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Johnson suggested that Musk was angry because the bill could hurt his Tesla electric vehicle company.

"Elon is missing it, okay?" he opined. I know that the EV mandate, very important to him, that is going away because the government should not be subsidizing these things. It's part of the Green New Deal. And I know that has an effect on his business, and I lament that."

"But for him to come out and pan the whole bill is to me just very disappointing, very surprising in light of the conversation I had with him yesterday," he added. "I just deeply regret that he's made this mistake."

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