Steve Bannon has stoked the tension between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The feud began when Musk pushed lawmakers to reject the president’s tax bill.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon dismissed Elon Musk's DOGE cuts as a failure because he said the billionaire had found "no fraud" in government spending. "This Elon thing is exactly like I told you," Bannon said on his Wednesday War Room podcast.

The “big, beautiful bill” has reaffirmed that a pledged golden age is really just a windfall for the über-wealthy. Katrina vanden Heuvel This article was originally published at The Guardian and is republished here with permission.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): We're gonna get back to the Big Beautiful Bill and financing all this, but people should understand, it looks like chaos right now, it's actually not. Or it's not as chaotic as it looks. There are a ton of people working through different things.

Think of it as Bannon on the one side, versus Newt Gingrich, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and others on the other — a debate that once ... many of the GOP tax cuts that Congress approved ...

Or not give the tax cut to the wealthy—not for right now, just can't happen." Although he disagreed with aspects of the legislation, Bannon defended the broader economic vision behind it ...

Steve Bannon goes ballistic