Home Republicans expressed uneasiness with the escalating feud between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk and known as for cooler heads to prevail.
Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas demanded Musk cease attacking Trump and mentioned “this tit-for-tat going forwards and backwards, isn’t serving to.” Whereas he praised Musk as “very gifted and gifted,” Nehls mentioned, “However to start out making statements like that, I feel, are irresponsible and positively not wholesome. So cease. You’ve misplaced your thoughts.”
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who voted in opposition to the invoice final month, warned that the laws is on “life help” and that the Senate could possibly be “endangering” it.
Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee appeared to counsel that the feud between Trump and Musk was inevitable. Requested how a lot Musk’s criticism will damage Republicans, Burchett mentioned, “Sooner or later it falls on deaf ears, I feel. It’s simply finally, persons are uninterested in listening to it.”
Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio is hoping to play peacemaker — inviting Trump, Musk, Speaker Mike Johnson, Vice President JD Vance and Massie to a non-public dinner “to fix all these fences.” He declined to enter particulars about who he’s heard from in response to his invitation.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio advised CNN that the invoice will move and “we’ll be simply nice” regardless of Musk’s relentless bashing of the invoice.
Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, a hardline conservative who’s objected to elements of the invoice, advised CNN flatly “no” when requested if he was involved about Trump and Musk’s public breakup. “I feel perhaps they need to rely to 10” Roy mentioned when requested about Musk’s supporting requires Trump to be impeached.
