President Trump told reporters: I am very disappointed with Elon. I have helped him a lot. He understands the content of the bill better than anyone sitting here. He had no problem with it before. Suddenly now he opposes it, and only started to oppose after learning that we would cut the mandatory electric vehicle provision (i.e., cut billions of USD in government subsidies for electric vehicles).

Elon Musk responded: If you like it, deal with it. Keep the cuts to incentives for electric vehicles and solar energy in the bill, even though subsidies for the oil and gas industry are not affected (so unfair!!), but please remove the pile of "dirty", unnecessary "trash" in the bill.

In the entire history of humanity, there has never been a law that is both "big" and "beautiful". Everyone knows that!

Either you have a big and ugly bill, or you have a light and beautiful bill.

Light and beautiful is the right way.