🔰'Clearly personal': House Speaker Mike Johnson weighs in on Trump and Elon Musk break up
Jun 20, 2025 #Mikejohnson #Politicians
So I'm passing the big beautiful bill and I think we are on track to do that by our deadline.
He hasn't distracted from some of this?
Look, it's not helpful, but I don't think it changes our trajectory in any way.
Mr. Speaker, Elon Musk did retweet a post that suggested that perhaps Donald Trump should be impeached and replaced by J.D. Pence.
I mean, for you to say it's not personal, it seems to have gotten...
No, it clearly is personal, but I'm...
What do you think is personal?
It seems like it's more than the EPA mandates.
Look, I don't know what motivated this disturbance to begin, but obviously it's not helpful.
My way is that policy disputes are not personal.
I've tried very hard to speak with Elon over and over and to talk with him about what I believe are misconceptions he has about this bill and what it is.
He keeps calling it a spending bill. It is not.
It is a budget reconciliation bill. It's something very different.
It has the most historic spending cuts in the history of the Congress.
He's not recognizing that, and it's not going to add to the deficit because he's working off a false assumption about the growth.
So really important points that I'd like to make to him again, but I haven't been able to get on the phone with him.
Is he still farming you? Is he preventing you?
We did exchange text messages today, and he seems to be hung up on spending.
The only spending in the reconciliation bill is on border and national defense.
Those are emergency measures that the president was elected to solve, and all of us.
We've made those commitments to everyone, so we have to do that.
The rest of it is reconciling the budget and saving taxpayers money and preventing the largest tax cuts in U.S. history.
So I hope that Elon will focus on that and that we can make all this stop.
So we're working on that. Thank you all. Thank you.

