Separately, White House aides, after working to persuade the president to temper his public criticism of Musk to avoid escalation, scheduled a call Friday with the billionaire CEO of Tesla to broker a peace.

The altercation between President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday evening caused political unrest and sent markets into a bloodbath. Recent reports claim that White House aides have scheduled a Friday call between the two to repair what has become a high-profile public fallout.

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.”