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Democrats begin to embrace Musk amid Trump spat after party railed against him as a ‘dictator’

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Democrats are moving to embrace former Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk as he publicly spats with President Donald Trump, despite many party voters and lawmakers railing against Musk for months as a «fascist» or «dictator» for taking a hatchet to the federal government’s overspending and fraud within the Trump administration.
«If Biden had a big supporter criticize him, Trump would have hugged him the next day,» Democrat California Rep. Ro Khanna posted to X on Thursday of Musk’s criticisms of the «big, beautiful bill.» «When we refused to meet with @RobertKennedyJr, Trump embraced him & won. We can be the party of sanctimonious lectures, or the party of FDR that knows how to win & build a progressive majority.»
Khanna told Politico on Wednesday that Democrats should «ultimately be trying to convince [Musk] that the Democratic Party has more of the values that he agrees with.»
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«A commitment to science funding, a commitment to clean technology, a commitment to seeing international students like him,» he added.
President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speak to reporters near a red Model S Tesla vehicle on the South Lawn of the White House, March 11, 2025. (Pool via AP )
Democrat New York Rep. Ritchie Torres told the outlet on Wednesday, «I’m a believer in redemption, and he is telling the truth about the legislation.»
Torres said Musk has «done an enormous amount of damage» and «there are Democrats who see his decimation of the federal workforce and the federal government as an unforgivable sin.»
«Couldn’t agree with Elon more: kill the bill,» Jon Favreau, who served as former director of speech writing for former President Barack Obama, posted to X in response to Musk calling on lawmakers to «kill» the legislation.
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Musk is in the midst of publicly trading barbs with Trump over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is sweeping legislation currently making its way through Congress and aims to fund the president’s agenda.
«I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,» Musk posted to X on Tuesday. «This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.»
In addition to Democrats who don’t support the bill, Musk has also found himself aligned with members of the House Freedom Caucus, which is considered the most conservative voting bloc within the lower chamber, as well as staunch fiscal conservatives in the Senate, such as Republicans Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Wisconsin Sen. Ron. Johnson, who have publicly rebuked the legislation.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is shown during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
Some Democrats posting messages favorable of Musk’s comments on the «big, beautiful bill» come after many left-wing voters and lawmakers, as well as federal employees, slammed Musk for months as an unelected billionaire who was helping shape White House policy. Many also took issue with Musk on inauguration day for delivering what dozens of media outlets described as a «Nazi-style salute» to Trump supporters.
«If you’re cool and want to defend the ‘Sieg Heils’ and the Nazi salutes … whatever you want to do, that’s on you,» Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Coretz said in January following the gesture. «I’m on the opposite side of that. I’m not with the Nazis.»

Hundreds protest outside a Tesla showroom to show their disapproval of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
«I never imagined we would see the day when what appears to be a Heil Hitler salute would be made behind the Presidential seal,» New York Rep. Jerry Nadler tweeted in January. «This abhorrent gesture has no place in our society and belongs in the darkest chapters of human history. I urge all of my colleagues to unite in condemning this hateful gesture for what it is: antisemitism.»
«He’s incompetent. He’s a thief. He’s a Nazi. And people don’t trust him,» former Democrat New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman said of Musk in March.
«He’s a Nazi nepo baby who breaks everything he touches,» Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley said in February as Musk announced cuts to the federal government via DOGE. «And right now he’s locked himself in a room with grandpa’s Social Security check.»
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey referred to Musk as a «dictator» at an anti-DOGE rally in February.
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Fiscal conservatives in Congress have spoken out against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as one that will increase the U.S. debt ceiling by trillions, including Senate Republicans bucking support for the legislation after its passage in the House last month.
«I want the tax cuts to be permanent. But at the same time, I don’t want to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion,» Paul told CBS’ «Face the Nation» on Sunday. «The GOP will own the debt once they vote for this.»

People protest automaker billionaire CEO Elon Musk near a Tesla vehicle dealership, March 8, 2025, in Decatur, Ga. (Mike Stewart/Associated Press)
Trump has admonished the criticism from fiscally conservative Republicans, arguing that Paul, for example, was on the verge of siding with the «Radical Left Democrats» and encouraging a 68% tax hike on Americans if he voted against the legislation.
Musk, since stepping down from his DOGE role in May after his 130 predetermined days as a special government employee ended, ramped up his criticism of the bill on Wednesday, including encouraging lawmakers to «kill the bill.»
On Thursday, Trump directly addressed Musk’s comments, saying in an Oval Office meeting with the chancellor of Germany that he was «disappointed» by Musk’s attacks on the legislation and said he was unsure how their friendly relationship would fare through the criticisms. Trump added that Musk’s disapproval of the bill was allegedly tied to its cuts to electrical vehicle mandates. Musk is the CEO of electric vehicle company Tesla.
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«I’m very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people. He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it,» Trump said Thursday. «All of a sudden, he had a problem. And he only developed the problem when he found out that we’re going to have to cut the EV mandate.»
«Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,» Trump added.
The pair later launched attacks on one another on social media.
«Elon was «wearing thin,» I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!» Trump posted to X on Thursday.
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«Such an obvious lie. So sad,» Musk responded on X.
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Anxious Republicans turn to Trump amid divisions over ‘big, beautiful bill’

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Republicans in the House and Senate are anxiously watching whether President Donald Trump will take a more aggressive approach in corralling GOP lawmakers in favor of his «big, beautiful bill.»
«President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party, isn’t he? I think it’s incumbent upon him to make sure everybody in the Senate understands that this is a signature piece of legislation that essentially 77 million Americans voted for,» Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital.
The Senate is working through a massive piece of legislation advancing Trump’s agenda on tax, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt — which the president has said he wants on his desk by the Fourth of July.
Trump has been pushing Republicans on the bill in public, addressing it at back-to-back events on Thursday and Friday while also posting on his Truth Social platform.
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President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to get his bill over the line by the Fourth of July. (Brendan SmialowskiAFP via Getty Images)
Congressional leaders have said they’ve been in near-constant contact with Trump or his White House staff about the legislation. Indeed, numerous White House officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Vice President JD Vance, to push Senate Republicans to stay on course.
But some House Republicans want him to be as forceful as he was when their chamber passed the bill by just one vote in May. Trump summoned multiple groups of Republicans to the White House on several occasions in the lead-up to that vote, and even made a rare trip to Capitol Hill to gin up support within the House GOP.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital that when the House was going through the motions of advancing the mammoth legislation, it «looked all but impossible» to get it across the finish line.
But it was because of Trump, he said, that the bill succeeded.
«He’s our closer in the bullpen right now,» he said. «His arm is getting warmed up, and we’ll bring him in here in the ninth inning, and he’s going to throw heat. And so far, he’s pitched a no-hitter.»
It’s worth noting that several senators who have expressed concerns about the bill have spoken individually with Trump.

Sen. Steve Daines said Trump was Republicans’ ‘closer in the bullpen.’ (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
But Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital showed varying degrees of enthusiasm when asked whether the president should repeat the intense involvement he had in the House.
When asked by Fox News Digital whether it’s time for the president to get involved, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas., said, «That’s up to the White House. It’s up to the president.»
But Roy added, «I think the Senate needs to deliver, and I think the Senate ought to make good on the agreement that the majority leader had with us and with the speaker to work with us to achieve that level of spending cuts.»
Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Penn., said Trump is «always involved, so he’ll stay involved because we do want to get it done by July 4th.»
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., said he was not being kept aware of how involved Trump was, but said the president’s deal-making skills would likely be needed.
«I mean, I think it’s gonna take that type of horsepower to kind of bring everybody together,» Fitzgerald said.
But some Republicans in the upper chamber are resistant.
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Senator Rick Scott said, ‘I’m not voting for something unless I know what I’m voting on.’ (Reuters)
«It doesn’t matter what he says, of course not,» Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. «I mean, I’m not voting for something unless I know what I’m voting on.»
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., wouldn’t say whether he believed that Trump should put a finger on the scales more. But he told Fox News Digital that he was appreciative of the effort that Thune and Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, had put into getting feedback from Senate Republicans, but said that at a certain point, lawmakers just needed to vote on the bill.
«We have cussed and discussed this bill for a long, long time, and at some point you move from careful, rational deliberation into the foothills of jackassery,» Kennedy said. «And that’s where we are now. It’s time to vote. If people are unhappy, they can offer amendments.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
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La República Democrática del Congo y Ruanda firmaron un acuerdo de paz, con la mediación de Estados Unidos

La República Democrática del Congo y Ruanda firmaron este viernes un acuerdo de paz -facilitado por Estados Unidos- que intentará poner fin a décadas de mortíferos combates en el este del Congo, a la par que buscará brindar al gobierno estadounidense y a empresas del país acceso a minerales críticos en la región.
El pacto, alcanzado tras meses de negociaciones, marca un paso significativo en los esfuerzos por frenar la violencia que ha devastado al este congoleño y que involucra a más de 100 grupos armados, entre ellos facciones respaldadas por Ruanda, provocando millones de muertes desde la década de 1990.
Precisamente, el documento suscrito prevé disposiciones sobre la protección de la integridad territorial, una prohibición de hostilidades y medidas concretas como la desmovilización, el desarme y la integración condicional de grupos armados no estatales.
De acuerdo con los términos del acuerdo, las partes se comprometen a respetar las fronteras internacionales y cesar acciones militares entre sí y contra sus ciudadanos y bienes. Además, se establecen mecanismos de verificación y seguimiento orientados a prevenir incursiones transfronterizas y el resurgimiento de la violencia, tradicionalmente alimentada por disputas étnicas, históricos resentimientos, y el control de los ricos yacimientos minerales de la región.
La ministra de Relaciones Exteriores del Congo, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, celebró la noticia y aprovechó el momento, junto a su par ruandés, Olivier Nduhungirehe, para evocar la magnitud de la tragedia humanitaria vivida por la población congoleña.
“Algunas heridas sanarán, pero nunca desaparecerán por completo. Aquellos que han sufrido más están observando. Esperan que este acuerdo sea respetado, y no podemos fallarles”, dijo, en referencia al historial de acuerdos previos fracasados, así como al impacto profundo y sostenido de las hostilidades en la niñez, las comunidades desplazadas, sectores rurales, y en la estructura social y económica local.
Por su parte, Nduhungirehe valoró el potencial positivo de esta cooperación y sostuvo que “el crecimiento compartido y la cooperación transfronteriza desbloquearán dividendos tangibles para ambos países”.
“Debemos reconocer que hay una gran incertidumbre en nuestra región y más allá, porque muchos acuerdos anteriores no se han implementado, y no hay duda de que el camino que nos espera no será fácil. Pero con el apoyo continuo de Estados Unidos y otros socios, creemos que se ha alcanzado un punto de inflexión”, sumó el canciller ruandés.

El secretario de Estado estadounidense, Marco Rubio, también se expresó tras el anuncio y describió el acontecimiento como “un momento importante tras 30 años de guerra”, enfatizando no solo en las aspiraciones de paz de los pueblos afectados por el conflicto, sino también en los intereses internacionales involucrados en la estabilidad regional y el acceso de su país a los recursos estratégicos.
En tanto, el presidente Donald Trump destacó durante una conferencia de prensa que gracias a su intervención en “una de las peores guerras que cualquier persona haya visto” logró “reunirlos (a los bandos enfrentados) y negociarlo (el acuerdo)”.
“Y no solo eso, estamos obteniendo para Estados Unidos muchos de los derechos minerales del Congo”, sumó, en referencia al nuevo caudal de minerales críticos para sectores tecnológicos claves al que tendrá acceso en adelante, en medio de la carrera con China por la influencia y la explotación del continente africano.
Durante las negociaciones, la participación de Qatar también resultó clave; el país árabe del Golfo ofreció respaldo logístico y político para acercar las posiciones de las partes enfrentadas, a petición de la Casa Blanca y otras entidades internacionales.
(Con información de AP)
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