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President-elect Trump connected Sunday rejected the recent dubbing of tech billionaire Elon Musk arsenic “President Musk” by Democrats.
“No, he’s not gonna beryllium president, that I tin archer you,” Trump said astatine blimpish group Turning Point's “America Fest” successful Phoenix, Ariz. “And I’m safe, you cognize why? He can’t be, helium wasn’t calved successful this country.”
Democratic leaders person precocious implied that the tech billionaire is the “real leader” of the GOP successful the aftermath of Musk’s hard-line run opposing a stopgap spending measure.
In the past week, Musk railed against the stopgap measure connected societal media, with the president-elect pursuing him successful his disapproval of the deal negotiated by beardown Trump state House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
“Any subordinate of the House oregon Senate who votes for this outrageous spending measure deserves to beryllium voted retired successful 2 years!” Musk said Wednesday connected the societal level X, which helium owns.
At “America Fest,” Trump said Musk “went to Pennsylvania, and helium stayed — stayed up determination for a month, and helped america to triumph that state, which we won by a lot.”
“So helium was truly good,” Trump added.
Trump said last period that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would service arsenic the heads of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) panel, which aims to “slash excess regulations, chopped wasteful expenditures” and "restructure national agencies."
DOGE volition “provide proposal and guidance from extracurricular of government” and enactment alongside the White House Office of Management and Budget, the president-elect said.
“It volition become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time,” Trump added. “Republican politicians person dreamed astir the objectives of ‘DOGE’ for a precise agelong time.”
The Hill has reached retired to Tesla, Musk's electrical car company, for comment.
