Overview

• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump will remain friendly toward Elon Musk yet will not forget the negativity surrounding Musk’s departure from government involvement.
• Lutnick made the comments in an interview with NewsNation’s Batya Ungar-Sargon, with the full segment scheduled to air at 4 p.m. Saturday.
• Federal Election Commission filings show Musk spent more than $290 million supporting Trump and other Republicans during the 2024 campaign.
• Their alliance led to Musk heading the Department of Government Efficiency, an initiative described as targeting waste, fraud and abuse in federal agencies.
• Musk resigned from the role in May and soon criticized Trump’s tax-and-spending bill as a “massive abomination” on X, later alleging Trump’s name appeared in the Epstein files.