From sadness to nastiness: Trump proposed to start checking the work of Elon Musk

In the United States, the quarrel between US President Donald Trump and the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, continues to gain new momentum. This time, the head of state announced that it was necessary to start checking the businessman's work. According to Trump, Musk received the most subsidies from the state, without which his companies could not exist. Read more about the incident, as well as the story of the quarrel between Trump and Musk, in the Izvestia article.

Checking the operation of the Mask: what is known

On Tuesday, July 1, it became known about the publication of Donald Trump on his Truth Social network, where he reports that Elon Musk received the most subsidies from the state. Without them, according to the head of the White House, the businessman would probably have to wind down his business and return to his homeland, South Africa.

"No more rocket launches, satellites or the production of electric vehicles, and our country would save a lot of money. Maybe DOGE (Department of U.S. Government Efficiency — Ed.) should take a good, hard look at this? A lot of money to save!" the US president wrote.

Donald Trump's post was not ignored by Elon Musk, who wrote on the social network X that "reaching the national debt ceiling is the only thing that will actually force the government to reduce waste [and stop] fraudulent activities."

The incident was Trump's response to Musk's words about the spending and tax bill.

"Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party," Elon Musk wrote on Twitter.

The businessman also attached the results of polls conducted on his social media account, which showed that more than half of Americans believe that Trump's initiative will increase the country's budget deficit.

"Due to the insane costs of this bill, which increases the national debt ceiling by a record $5 trillion, it becomes obvious that we live in a one-party country," wrote Elon Musk.

According to him, it's also time for a new party that will "really care about people."

Trump's "Single, big, beautiful" bill

The bill, which caused Musk to criticize Trump, was called "The Big, Beautiful Bill." Among other things, it involves reducing federal taxes, increasing spending on defense and border security, as well as reducing government social security programs, including Medicaid. In total, it is expected to allocate $350 billion for national security, including for the implementation of the Trump mass deportation program.

On Monday, June 30, it was also reported that the senators had moved on to the debate on this law. They were preceded by a long reading aloud of the full text of the document, which is about 1,000 pages long. According to Western media reports, in this way, the Democrats in Congress tried to use all possible tools to delay and delay the process of passing the bill.

On Sunday, June 29, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office conducted an analysis according to which the law will increase the US budget deficit by about $3.3 trillion from 2025 to 2034, deprive 11.8 million citizens of health insurance and increase the national debt by $5 trillion.

The quarrel between Trump and Musk

In early June 2025, a public spat began between Elon Musk and Donald Trump over the bill proposed by the president. The quarrel, which continues to this day, mostly takes place on social media, where they loudly and publicly sort things out.

Musk later said that he regretted his comments about Trump, however, on June 28, he once again criticized the bill. In his opinion, the adoption of the document will bring "enormous strategic harm" to the United States and endanger millions of jobs and send the United States "on the path of debt slavery." Donald Trump had previously said that the reason for Musk's dissatisfaction was the exclusion from the document of subsidies for electric vehicle manufacturers, from which his company Tesla would benefit the most.