Tech billionaire Elon Musk is not just exiting his friendship with President Donald Trump over the tax break megabill — he appears to be cutting ties with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as well.
According to The Daily Beast, Musk has unfollowed Johnson, who shepherded Trump's "big, beautiful bill" through the House and then whipped the caucus into passing the Senate-modified version with no additional changes, on his X platform.
This comes after Musk followed through on his threat to Trump to form a new competing political party to the GOP, which he calls the America Party, in response to the bill's passage.
The bill, which extends and deepens tax breaks almost exclusively for the super-rich while making deep cuts to Medicaid, food stamps, and green energy subsidies, drew Musk's fury in large part because it is not deficit-neutral, adding more than $2 trillion to the federal deficit.
Musk has called the bill a "disgusting abomination," and throughout the process of its debate, aggressively lobbied his supporters to call their members of Congress in opposition.
Throughout all of this, Johnson said he was "disappointed" in Musk's position and tried to get the billionaire back on Trump's side.
"It's very disappointing, okay? I've come to consider Elon a good friend. But with all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the One Big Beautiful Bill," Musk told CNN correspondent Manu Raju in early June. "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."
