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.

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.”