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"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, the Democrats would have controlled the House of Representatives, and the Republicans would have remained at 51-49 in the Senate," Musk posted on the social network X, which he owns.
The richest man in the world, who spent at least 250 million dollars on the campaign to re-elect Trump, showed his displeasure in response to the words of the president this Thursday, who expressed how "disappointed" he is with the South African for his comments against his controversial fiscal and budgetary plan, now under debate in the Senate.
Shortly after, in the same conversation on X, Musk wrote "what ingratitude" in the face of the perplexity of his millions of followers, who asked the platform's artificial intelligence bot Grok what was happening.
What triggered the disagreement between the former close collaborators was the bill called by Trump as 'Great and beautiful bill', which according to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office will increase the country's debt by 2.4 trillion dollars over the next decade.
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Musk ya había dicho que la aprobación de la propuesta por la Cámara Baja del Congreso "socavaba" su trabajo como asesor del Gobierno y líder del Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental (DOGE) para reducir el despilfarro de los fondos federales.
The magnate stepped down from his position as a temporary employee of the Administration last Friday in a ceremony at the Oval Office where Trump and Musk showered each other with praise.
