US House Speaker says Elon Musk 'flat wrong' over Trump agenda bill criticism

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US House Speaker Mike Johnson says Elon Musk is "flat wrong" for opposing President Donald Trump's sweeping agenda bill after the billionaire called it a "disgusting abomination."   Johnson also says the president "is not delighted" by Musk's sudden reversal, noting that the tech mogul had previously expressed support for Republican control of the House.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Rarely do I get to raise the podium, so let me do this for a second.

00:04Great to see you all this morning.

00:06We take it personal.

00:08You know, policy differences are not personal.

00:12I think he's flat wrong.

00:14I think he's way off on this, and I've told him as much, and I've said it publicly and privately.

00:19I'm very consistent in that.

00:20This is why we need the one big, beautiful bill.

00:22One of the many reasons for President Trump's desk as quickly as possible to sign it.

00:27Look, let me just address the Elon controversy and tell you that I consider Elon a friend.

00:33He's obviously brilliant.

00:36I just told you we credit him with all the big changes with Doge and everything else.

00:40It's curious to me what happened this week.

00:42We had a great, it was a very friendly, very fruitful conversation together.

00:45And he and I talked about the midterm elections, and he said, I'm going to help.

00:49We've got to make sure that the Republicans keep the House majority.

00:52We can't have the president impeached, which is what the Democrats would do on day one, as we all well know.

00:56And we've got to continue this.

00:58The Trump administration needs four years to do all this reform, not two years.

01:02Elon and I left on a great note.

01:04We were texting one another, you know, happy text, you know, Monday.

01:07And then yesterday, you know, 24 hours later, he does a 180, and he comes out and opposed the bill.

01:13And it surprised me, frankly.

01:14And I don't take it personal.

01:16We don't take it personal.

01:18You know, policy differences are not personal.

01:21I think he's flat wrong.

01:25I think he's way off on this, and I've told him as much, and I've said it publicly and privately.

01:29I'm very consistent in that.

01:31I talk to President Trump, you know, all the time, multiple times a day.

01:35Obviously, we've talked about this.

01:37As you know, he's not delighted that Elon did a 180 on that.

01:42But, look, I don't know what happened in 24 hours.

01:46Everybody can draw their own conclusions about that, okay?

01:48But I look forward to talking to my friend about it again, and I'm not upset about it, all right?

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