Scott Bessent has shot down tech broligarch Elon Musk’s warnings that President Donald Trump’s spending proposals will add $5 trillion to the national debt.
“I admire Elon’s leadership on rockets. I will take care of the finances,” the Treasury Secretary seethed in a Fox News interview Tuesday morning, declining to respond to host Brian Kilmeade’s remarks about getting into a schoolyard brawl with the Tesla CEO earlier this year.
Bessent’s comments come after Musk reignited his otherwise simmering feud with Trump over the White House’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ on federal spending, blasting the president’s proposals in an X post on Monday.
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