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It came after the tech billionaire - who donated millions to Trump's election campaign and became a White House aide - publicly criticised one of the president's key domestic policies, his tax and spending bill.A majority of Republicans have fallen in line behind the president, with Vice-President JD Vance saying that Musk may never be welcomed back into the fold because he had "gone so nuclear".

Vance told podcaster Theo Von in an interview released on Saturday that it was a "big mistake" for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to attack the president.For weeks, Musk had been criticising Trump's signature legislation - dubbed the Big Beautiful Bill - as it made its way through Congress.He argued that, if passed, the bill would add trillions of dollars to the national deficit and "undermine" the work he did as the head of Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, and its efforts to cut government spending.

Shortly after leaving Doge after 129 days in the job, Musk took to his social media site X to call the bill a "disgusting abomination" - but did not criticise Trump directly.On Thursday, however, Trump told reporters he was "disappointed" with Musk's behaviour.

Musk responded with a flurry of posts on X, saying that Trump would have lost the election without him and accusing Trump of being implicated in files of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail awaiting sex trafficking charges.

He has since deleted the post and Epstein's lawyer has come out denying the accusations."I constantly meet pensioners who live very comfortably. I go to the cinema and the theatre regularly and they are packed with my ilk, most of whom don't need this money."

Alice thinks its unfair that some young people earning less than £30,000 are expected to pay what she calls "extortionate rent and travel expenses".money should be put towards the NHS or tackling the housing crisis.

Ian Bryant, from Nailsworth in Gloucestershire, is pleased with the government's decision.He earns more than £35,000 as a pensioner so will not be receiving the payment himself but is