If Elon Musk had any thoughts of pivoting back to the Democrats after his high-profile dust up with President Donald Trump on Thursday, House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries likely ended them on Friday.
Musk has been a vocal critic of the "big, beautiful bill" over its spending provisions, advocating for steeper cuts and the perils of continued deficit spending. The dispute, however, became personal on Thursday, with Musk exchanging tit-for-tat social media barbs with the president and going so far as to claim the administration had not released the Epstein files due to Trump's presence in the documents. Pressed on the public rift between the pair, Jeffries suggested it presented an opportunity to stop Trump's priority legislation and that he wouldn't "welcome back" Musk to the fold.