.An emerging gulf between President Donald Trump and recently departed adviser Elon Musk is underscoring tensions among Republicans as fiscal hawks in the Senate threaten to withhold support for the “big, beautiful bill” and other GOP senators seek to amend the delicate negotiations that helped the measure narrowly pass the House last month.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson called the measure “immoral,” and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he “can’t be on record as being one who supports increasing the debt by $5 trillion.” (The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office calculates that the House-passed version of the bill would increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade .)

Musk, a onetime self-described “first buddy” of Trump’s and the top donor to Republicans running for fede

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