Trump-Musk Alliance Unravels Over ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ (2)

From the moment Donald Trump and Elon Musk joined forces, betting in Washington held that the president’s bond with the First Buddy who bankrolled his comeback election win wouldn’t last.

The breakup finally arrived this week, an escalating tit-for-tat between the world’s richest man and the president of the US, who spent much of Thursday sniping at one another via social media posts and cameras in the Oval Office.

By mid-afternoon, swipes had given way to threats, with Trump proposing to end the subsidies and government contracts that undergird Musk’s two most important companies, Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies ...