Speaker Johnson Responds To Elon Musk's Electoral Threat Against GOP Pols Over Big Beautiful Bill

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At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Speaker Johnson was asked about the Elon Musk's threat to GOP politicians who support the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00and and ensure greater accountability going forward and that is a huge innovation

00:04elon musk was sort of making polluting to electoral threats against republicans who voted for

00:11the big beautiful bill i mean he spent 290 million dollars in the 2024 election

00:16how much of a threat is this to keeping the majority look let me let me just address the

00:24elon controversy and tell you that um i i consider elon a friend he's obviously

00:29brilliant um i just gave told you we credit him with all the big changes with doge and everything

00:34else um it's it's curious to me what happened this week and i just i mean full disclosure elon and i

00:39had a great conversation about a half hour long talk on uh monday this week uh monday morning and

00:45we talked about the big beautiful bill because he made he i think he was trying to make a joke a

00:49couple days earlier it can't be big and beautiful and i started the conversation oh yes it can my

00:53my friend it's very beautiful so we talked about all the record level of savings my friends no

00:59government in the history of mankind has ever cut 1.6 trillion dollars in a piece of legislation we're

01:04doing that here i mean um the extraordinary level of savings and the historic level of tax cuts

01:10at the same time and all these great policy prescriptions and i i talked to elon through

01:14all that and explained to him what we're doing and that this is just the beginning of a long process

01:19of making government more efficient and effective of cutting wasteful spending fraud and abuse and

01:23you can't do it all in one bill it took congress decades to get to the situation it's it's going to

01:27take us a little while to get out of it but we have a a very specific plan to do that and elon was

01:32encouraged by that conversation we had a great it was a very friendly very fruitful conversation together

01:37and uh and he and i talked about the midterm elections and he said i'm going to help we got to make sure

01:41that the republicans keep the house majority we can't have the president impeached which is what the democrats

01:46would do on day one as we all well know and we've got to continue this the trump administration needs

01:51four years to do all this reform not two years with the biden administration biden harris made such

01:56a disaster of every metric of public policy it's going to take us more than one bill to fix it all

02:00um elon and i left on a great note we were texting one another you know happy texts uh you know monday

02:05and then uh and then yesterday you know 24 hours later um he does a 180 and he comes out and opposed the

02:11bill and i it surprised me frankly and um i don't take it personal we don't take it personal um you

02:16know he's uh policy differences are not personal um i i think he's he's flat wrong i think he's um he's

02:24way off on this and i've told him as much and and uh i've said it publicly and privately i'm very

02:28consistent in that but um am i concerned about the effect of this on the midterms i'm not let me tell

02:32you why because when the big beautiful bill is done and signed into law every single american is going to

02:37do better this bill is geared for middle and working-class americans and they are going to

02:42feel the effects of it and they're going to feel it before the midterm election so i have no concern

02:46whatsoever i'm absolutely convinced that we're going to win the midterms and grow the house majority

02:50because we're delivering for the american people and fulfilling our campaign promises and we'll see how

02:54that happens second row right here

Speaker Johnson Responds To Elon Musk's Electoral Threat Against GOP Pols Over Big Beautiful Bill

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