{"id":9865,"date":"2025-06-03T19:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-calls-musk-terribly-wrong-after-slamming-megabill\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:03:29","slug":"mike-johnson-calls-musk-terribly-wrong-after-slamming-megabill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-calls-musk-terribly-wrong-after-slamming-megabill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson calls Musk \u2018terribly wrong\u2019 after slamming megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Elon Musk is \u201cterribly wrong\u201d after the tech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/elon-musk-trump-bill-00382653\" target=\"_blank\">blasted the GOP megabill<\/a> as a \u201cdisgusting abomination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big, beautiful bill,\u201d Johnson told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson said he spoke over the phone with the former chief of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative for what he described as a friendly conversation of more than 20 minutes Monday about the &#8220;virtues&#8221; of the bill. \u201cAnd he seemed to understand that,\u201d Johnson added.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said he discussed with Musk the accelerated repeal of many green subsidies in the House version of the bill, something Musk has voiced opposition to in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for him to come out and pan the whole bill, to me, is just very disappointing \u2014 very surprising in light of the conversation I had with him yesterday,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not personal,\u201d the speaker added. \u201cI just deeply regret that he\u2019s made this mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Elon Musk is \u201cterribly wrong\u201d after the tech billionaire blasted the GOP megabill as a \u201cdisgusting abomination.&#8221; \u201cWith all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big, beautiful bill,\u201d Johnson told reporters. Johnson said he spoke over the phone with the former chief of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}