Confident that passage of President Trump's signature legislation was all but assured, West Wing aides summoned holdouts in the House Republican caucus Wednesday to deliver a blunt message: Follow the president's orders and get it done by Friday.

Musk pledged to start a new political party and Trump threatened to use the federal government to punish his former adviser’s companies.

The feud reignited on Monday when Musk, who spent hundreds of millions on Trump's re-election, renewed his criticism of Trump's tax-cut and spending bill, which would eliminate subsidies for electric vehicle purchases that have benefited Tesla,