White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has downplayed reports of a physical bust-up between Elon Musk and Treasury SecretaryScott Bessent.
Trump’s former chief strategist. Steve Bannon, claimed Musk barrelled into Bessent “like a rugby player” during an altercation in mid-April. Bessent had reportedly provoked Musk, then still chief of Trump’s cost-cutting DOGE drive, by calling the Tesla CEO a “total fraud” over his pledges to uncover and axe more than $1 trillion in government waste and fraud under the initiative.
“When this story originally broke, I said from the podium that there have definitely been healthy disagreements amongst the cabinet and Elon Musk,” Leavitt told Fox News Sunday.
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