Attorney General Pam Bondi and House Speaker Mike Johnson also spoke at the conference, along with popular Trump ally, Steve Bannon. Elon Musk also made an appearance at the conservative gathering, brandishing a chainsaw given to him by Argentine President Javier Milei.

Trump and Musk keep talking up the idea of sending checks to Americans. But GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, keep batting it down.

Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Thursday against an idea floated by President Donald Trump to reward U.S. taxpayers with DOGE stimulus checks. The time isn’t right, the speaker argued, to send savings from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts back to Americans in the form of dividend checks.

A New York Times reporter capped off a discussion about the House budget bill by wondering how long Donald Trump would be saddled with Elon Musk. House Speaker Mike Johnson notched a legislative win late Tuesday with a framework for the "big,

Elon Musk drove another wedge through a conservative consensus on a budget resolution as House Speaker Mike Johnson struggled to hold his “big, beautiful bill” together. Johnson was caught between swing district doves wary of cuts to Medicaid and fiscal hawks insisting the $2 trillion spending cuts didn’t go far enough.

The day one speaker schedule includes Vice President JD Vance, Michael Knowles, Speaker Mike Johnson, Sen. Rick Scott, Nigel Farage, Steve Bannon, and Ben Shapiro, among many others. See the full agenda below for all of Thursday’s events.

The plan would see up to $5,000 sent to taxpayers if Elon Musk's DOGE reaches its goal of cutting $2 trillion in federal spending.

Mike Johnson is trying and failing to maintain the appearance of budget unity within the GOP—and Elon Musk is only making it harder. The looming Republican budget resolution is an attempt to pack Donald Trump’s beefy agenda into one “big,