President Donald Trump responded to Elon Musk's blistering critique of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, saying in the Oval Office on Wednesday that he'd rather Musk "criticize me than criticize the bill.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Republicans’ criticism of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the president’s tax and immigration bill, claiming that the independent agency — which warned that millions could lose health-care access if the measure is signed into law — has been “historically wrong.”