Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., addressed Musk’s post on X slamming Trump’s agenda bill at a news conference, saying that he respects “everything that Elon did with DOGE” but that they “have a difference of opinion” on the bill.

The billionaire, who is leaving his role as a key White House advisor, trashed Republicans’ sweeping spending legislation as a “disgusting abomination” and has threatened to support challenges to lawmakers that vote for it.