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Senator Cory Booker said on Sunday that he would not accept campaign donations from the Elon Musk technology magnate, but urged Trump’s former adviser to “get involved at the moment in a more substantial manner” in the thrust of the Democrats against the bill of expenditure supported by the GOP.
“This bill is disastrous for our long -term economy,” said Booker to “Meet the Press” by NBC News. “This is an American problem, and I welcome Elon Musk not to my campaign. I am currently welcoming it, not to sit and simply shoot tweets, to get involved at the moment in a more substantial way to put pressure on the people of the Congress and the Senators not to do it. ”
Asked directly if he would never accept the funding of musk campaigns, Booker said: “I would not accept Elon Musk’s money for my campaign, but I would support anyone, including Elon Musk, putting the resources at the moment to inform more Americans” about the bill.
Booker’s remarks come like other Democrats, Like California Ro Khanna representativeFatured to welcome Musk in the Democratic Party after a quarrel between President Donald Trump and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX exploded last week.
“We must finally try to convince him that the Democratic Party has more values with which he agrees”, Khanna said politico Last week after Musk and Trump drawn a series of publications on social networks criticizing each other.
The fall started after musk called The budget bill a “disgusting abomination” in an article on X. In the following articles on Truth Social, the president accused Musque to “wear thin” and said “he went crazy”.
Musk later accused Trump of “ingratitudeIn another article on X after spending $ 250 million to increase Trump’s campaign in 2024 and accused Trump of links with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a position now deleted.
Saturday, during a phone call with NBC News, Trump said he had No desire to repair your relationship with Musk After their public sputum.
The president also answered a direct question on what could happen if Musk decided to financially support the Democrats in the mid-term elections in 2026, a few days after Musk wrote in an article on X, “In November of next year, we dismissed all the politicians who betrayed the American people,” seemed to refer to the Republicans who voted for the expenditure bill supported by the GOP in the House.
“If he does it, he will have to pay the consequences for this,” Trump told NBC News, adding that there could be “serious consequences”.
In May, republicans of the house adopted an internal policy bill Called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” which would extend the tax reductions adopted in the first Trump administration, would increase border security funding and eliminate federal taxes on advice and overtime. The bill has also been the subject of a meticulous examination of democrats to reduce funding for Medicaid and certain food coupons while adding work requirements for Medicaid, which provides health care to low -income Americans.
Musk and some Senate Republicans went bankrupt the bill for the estimated effects he may have on federal debt and the deficit, although Trump and the Républicains de la Chambre have minimized these concerns.
“More and more Americans must understand that if this bill is adopted, the average Americans will so are soaring their costs while this president again pushes legislation that indicates his chaos, his corruption and his cruelty to the Americans,” Booker said on Sunday.
