On the 7th local time, US President Trump said that if Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk fund Democratic candidates who oppose the Republican budget, they will face "very serious consequences."
Trump said: "If he does, he will pay for it." But he did not disclose specific measures. Trump added that he had no intention of repairing his relationship with Musk, "I think the relationship is over."
△Trump and Musk (data photo)
Recently, Trump and Musk have been in public on social media due to a Republican-led budget, and Trump said Musk "has great disrespectful to the presidency." Previously, Musk posted a post on social media platform X to criticize the large-scale tax and expenditure bill promoted by the US government, attacked Trump, and even forwarded content related to Geoffrey Epstein's old news, and then deleted it.
Trump responded that the allegations about Epstein were "old things" and denied that he was associated with it.
In addition, Trump has threatened his right to cancel government contracts and subsidies for Musk's companies, although no action has been taken on this. He stressed that the Republican Party has unprecedented unity and is optimistic about the successful passage of the budget.
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Federal grant cuts? California governor threatens to stop paying taxes
According to US media reports on the 6th, it is reported that US President Trump plans to start mass cuts in federal funding to California as early as the 13th.
In response, as the largest economic state in the United States, its Governor Newsom posted on social media that day that California is a "net contribution state" of the U.S. federal finance, and California pays more than $80 billion more taxes to the federal government than the federal grants received. If the U.S. government continues to threaten the 40 million American people living in California, California might consider stop paying taxes.
▌Source of this article: CCTV News WeChat official account (ID: CCTV News)
