Taking to their respective social media platforms, Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts, while Musk said Trump would not have won in November without him.

The president also asserted that Musk's days of blistering attacks on the bill were motivated by the proposed elimination of consumer tax credits for electric vehicles. Musk, the CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla,

Elon Musk, who recently ended his tenure overseeing the cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service, escalated his attacks Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration package, urging lawmakers to “KILL the BILL.