Live updates: Trump and Musk escalate public feud over agenda bill

President Donald Trump floated terminating Elon Musk’s companies’ government subsidies and contracts as a way of saving money, intensifying the two billionaires’ feud on Thursday.

“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Musk then commented on a tweet about how that could end the International Space Station, writing, “This just gets better and better,” adding, “Go ahead, make my day …”

Minutes earlier, Trump wrote that he’d asked Musk to leave the White House, and claimed the Tesla CEO “just went CRAZY!”

“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY,” the president said. (There has never been a federal mandate that prohibited Americans from buying gasoline-powered cars.)

The president’s social media posts come as he said in the Oval Office earlier Thursday that he was “very disappointed” with Musk as he continues to blast the president’s massive tax and spending cuts package. Trump said he and Musk “had a great relationship,” but “I don’t know if we will anymore.”