By Bill Barrow
With an unusual Feistiness, speaker Mike Johnson took clear parties in President Donald Trump on Sunday apart With mega billionaire Elon Musk.
The Republican house leader and loyal ally of Trump said that Musk’s criticism of the huge Gop’s huge Invoice for tax and budget policy Will not derail the measure and he tried the influence of Musk on the Gop-controlled congress.
“I did not go out to make a piece of legislation to please the richest man in the world,” said Johnson on ABC’s “this week.” “What we try to do is help hard -working Americans who try to take care of their families and make ends meet,” Johnson was full.
Johnson said he exchanged SMS messages with Musk, because the former chef of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency was against the GOP account.
Musk called it a ‘horror’ that would contribute to American debts and threaten economic stability. He urged the voters to overflow with Capitol Hill with calls to vote against the measure, which is awaiting the Senate after cleaning up the house. His criticism led to one angry social media back and forth With Trump, who repeated reporters at the weekend, he does not want to recover his relationship with Musk.
The speaker was negative for the threats of Musk to finance opponents – even Democrats – of Republican members who support Trump’s bill.
“We have almost no phone calls to the offices, every republican member of the congress,” said Johnson. “And I think that indicates that people are taking a awaiting. Some who may be convinced by some of his arguments, but the rest understands: this is a very exciting piece of legislation.”
Johnson argued that Musk still believes: “That our policy is better for human flowering. They are better for the American economy. They are better for everything he is involved in his innovation and job creation and entrepreneurship.”
The speaker and other Republicans, including the Budget Leader of the White House of Trump, continued on Sunday against predictions that their tax and budget plans will contribute to annual deficits and therefore a national debt that already climbs to $ 40 trillion.
Johnson insisted that Musk has bad information and the speaker disputed the predictions of the non -party -bound Congressional Budget Office that scores budget legislation. The bill would expand the Trump tax reductions 2017, reduce the expenses and reduce some other levies, but also leave around 10.9 million people without health insurance and nails shortages with $ 2.4 trillion During the decadeAccording to the analysis of the CBO.
The speaker visited with arguments that Republicans have made for decades: that lower taxes and cuts on economic growth would stimulate that deficits fall.
Russell Vought, who leads the White House Office of Budget and Management, said on Fox News Sunday that CBO analysts base their models of ‘artificial basic lines’. Because the tax legislation of 2017 has set the lower rates to run, the cost estimates of CBO argued, Vought argued, in which a return was assumed to the higher rates before that law came into force.
Vought Recognized CBO’s indictment of the congress is to analyze legislation and current legislation as it is written. But he said that the office could give additional analyzes, which implies that it would be friendlier for GOP goals. Asked if the White House would ask for alternative estimates, Vough again put the burden on CBO, so that the conference rules allows the office to publish more analysis.
In the meantime, other Republicans approached the Trump-MUSK struggle carefully.
“As a former professional hunter I learned a long time ago, don’t go between two hunters,” said Oklahoma Senator MarkWayne Mullin about CNN’s “State of the Union”.
He even compared the two billionaire business people with a couple.
“President Trump is a friend of mine, but I don’t have to get it, I can have friends who have disagreements,” said Mullin. “My wife and I love each other and every now and then, actually very often, sometimes she does not agree with me, but that does not mean that we cannot stay focused on what is best for our family. At the moment there can be a disagreement, but we are laser aimed at what is best for the American people.”
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Associated Press journalist Gary Fields has contributed from Washington.
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