When Senate Republicans entered their weekly closed-door lunch on Tuesday, lawmakers said they were eager to make progress on their massive reconciliation bill.
By the time they came out of that meeting, however — after Elon Musk trashed the legislation as a “disgusting abomination” and a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill” — Republicans seemed even further from consensus.
Senate Republican leaders have readily acknowledged the reconciliation bill would change in the upper chamber. But there is hardly any agreement on how it will change.