Elon Musk's push against President Trump's tax and spending bill stands to cause Republicans voicing concern about increasing the nation’s debt to get louder. “Is this the moment where Republicans and everyone in the country start to understand the threat and the scale of financing this debt?

Congressional Republicans are siding with Donald Trump in the messy divorce between the president and Elon Musk, an optimistic sign for eventual passage of a tax cut bill at the root of the two billionaires’ public feud.