When Donald Trump became the 47th president of the United States, he surprisingly appointed his friend and billionaire tech mogul, Elon Musk, to reduce governmental overspending and create efficiencies among interdepartmental spending and business decisions.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which the owner of SpaceX, Tesla, X/Twitter, OpenAI, and Neuralink oversaw until recently, claims to save the federal government “more than $10 billion each week,” or $714 saved per taxpayer. Trump and Musk made a formidable duo in U.S. politics until Elon shocked the world and refuted the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which is now in the Senate for review. 

Elon Musk has acted as one of the Act’s chief cheerleaders in Congress, understanding this would make Trump’s suggested 2017 tax cuts permanent and boost other spending resources for border security and foreign defense. He spent over $270 million of his money to support the Republican party and electioneer for Trump to get the popular vote. 

Then, he went rogue and got personal on his social media platform.

“Call your Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL,” Musk stunningly posted and surprised most of the Executive Branch. In another post, he wrote, “America is in the fast lane to debt slavery.” 

That was followed by a creative meme paying homage to a notable Quentin Tarantino movie.

pic.twitter.com/b15EQ9l0nD

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 4, 2025

In a response via Donald Trump’s platform, Truth Social, the president shared, “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!” 

Another post got a little more personal: “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!” 

Among the taxes the two are arguing about involve: 

• Homeownership cuts to green energy tax credits and incentives
• $330 billion from student loan spending over the next 10 years 
• Ending the $200 excise tax imposed on the purchase or transfer of gun silencers
• Raising the SALT tax deduction (state and local taxes) limit from $10K to $40K for joint filers making less than $500,000 per year
• The creation of “Trump saving accounts” for parents of newborn children
• Elimination of tax on tips and overtime for servers who make less than $160,000 a year

To rub some additional “salt” in the open wounds left by his departure, Musk posts about Trump’s ingratitude: 

He’s not wrong… pic.twitter.com/UkdzB43zIq

— @amuse (@amuse) June 5, 2025

As the country approaches a hyperbolic national debt of $37 trillion, pundits suggest that Musk’s use of the term “disgusting abomination” about the Act should be applied to that harrowing number. 

Whether Congress is “making America bankrupt” remains to be seen, but the end of this egocentric squabble appears to be far from over.