Elon Musk appeared to jokingly reconsider his stance on the Big Beautiful Bill after a California Democrat came to his defense.

President Donald Trump said billionaire Elon Musk would face “serious consequences” if he threw his support behind Democrats running against Republican backers of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill. Trump issued the threat in a phone interview with NBC on Saturday,

House Republicans are hoping the public breakup between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk does not last very long for the sake of the “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill. Thursday’s news cycle was dominated by the clash between the President and the world’s richest man and their petty attacks on each other — which included mentions of Jeffrey Epstein,

The billionaire had claimed in a post on Thursday that the president was named in the much-discussed Epstein files.