“There are no plans for that today," Wiles told NBC News when asked about reporting by Politico that White House aides scheduled a call Friday with the billionaire Tesla CEO to try to patch things up between the two men. Trump is "not interested" in a call, a senior White House official told NBC News.

White House officials sought on Friday to shift attention away from the feud between President Trump and onetime cost-cutting czar Elon Musk. The officials said the president and senior aides were focused on passing Trump's tax-and-spending package.

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.”