President Donald Trump on Thursday publicly acknowledged for the first time his deteriorating relationship with Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who once held a high-level

The breaking point, according to Trump, appeared to be Musk’s opposition to the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which undermines Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency by increasing the debt by $2.4 trillion over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.