Steve Bannon escalated his enmity with fellow Trump ally Elon Musk on Tuesday, telling POLITICO that the president-elect’s billionaire right-hand-man doesn’t have all that much power.
Bannon, a former chief strategist for Trump and the host of the “War Room” podcast, said Musk, who will co-lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has had some influence over Cabinet picks and policy discussions, but that he doesn’t “have the ability to actually make decisions and inform those decisions and drive those decisions.”
As Trump’s big-tent GOP returns to power, Bannon and Musk have served as a prime example of the infighting already underway. It previews the upcoming clashes set to take place in the Republican Party, and offers an early reminder of the incoming president’s governing style.
