“There are no plans for that today," Wiles told NBC News when asked about reporting by Politico that White House aides scheduled a call Friday with the billionaire Tesla CEO to try to patch things up between the two men. Trump is "not interested" in a call, a senior White House official told NBC News.

White House officials sought on Friday to shift attention away from the feud between President Trump and onetime cost-cutting czar Elon Musk. The officials said the president and senior aides were focused on passing Trump's tax-and-spending package.

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.