Elon Musk speaks throughout a press occasion with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), on the White Home in Washington, D.C., on Could 30, 2025.
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Elon Musk on Tuesday tore into the large tax-and-spending-cut bill backed by President Donald Trump, calling it a “disgusting abomination” that can explode federal budget deficits.
“I am sorry, however I simply can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote in a submit on X, his social media website.
“This huge, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending invoice is a disgusting abomination,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO added.
“Disgrace on those that voted for it: you understand you probably did improper. You realize it,” wrote Musk, who till final week led the Trump administration’s DOGE effort to chop authorities spending and waste.
Musk in a follow-up submit wrote that the invoice “will massively improve the already gigantic funds deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America residents with crushingly unsustainable debt.”
The jibes got here two days after CBS Information aired an interview by which Musk mentioned that the legislative bundle backed by the Republican president “undermines” DOGE.
The White Home rapidly shrugged off Musk’s newest criticism.
“Look, the president already is aware of the place Elon Musk stood on this invoice,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned at a briefing Tuesday when requested in regards to the preliminary submit.
“It would not change the President’s opinion. That is one massive, stunning invoice, and he is sticking to it,” Leavitt mentioned.
Leavitt doubled down on the administration’s declare that it’s “blatantly improper” to say that the invoice provides to the deficit.
She accused the nonpartisan Congressional Funds Workplace, which found that the funds bundle would increase the deficit by $3.8 trillion over the subsequent decade, of being biased in opposition to Republicans.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson, who led the Republican caucus’s effort to go the spending bundle by way of that chamber, advised reporters, “With all due respect, my buddy Elon is extremely improper in regards to the one massive stunning invoice.”
Johnson, R-La., reiterated his protection of the invoice in an X submit, whereas additionally vowing that Congress would codify a few of DOGE’s claimed government-spending cuts as a part of a rescissions bundle.
However Musk, replying to an X submit criticizing the GOP caucus, wrote, “In November subsequent 12 months, we fireplace all politicians who betrayed the American individuals.”
However a few of Trump’s fellow Republicans agreed with Musk, amongst them Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
Massie, a fiscal hawk who was one in every of solely two Republicans to vote in opposition to the Home model of the invoice, wrote, “He is proper,” in a response to Musk’s X submit.
Musk replied to Massie: “Basic math.”
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, additionally backed Musk’s warning of the deficit being blown out.
“Congress has hollowed out America’s center class by way of reckless deficit spending and the inflation it causes,” Lee wrote on X.
“The Uniparty propels this vicious cycle, and should be stopped in its tracks.”
Earlier Tuesday, Trump lashed out at Sen. Rand Paul when the Kentucky Republican criticized the invoice’s provision to boost the debt ceiling by trillions of {dollars}.
Trump accused Paul of failing to grasp that the invoice would spur “super GROWTH.”
Paul wrote on X later Tuesday, “I agree with Elon.”
“We now have each seen the large waste in authorities spending and we all know one other $5 trillion in debt is a large mistake. We are able to and should do higher,” the libertarian senator wrote.
Musk replied to Paul’s submit with an American-flag emoji.
Musk was the most important monetary backer of Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign, spending greater than $250 million on that effort.
However whereas serving as head of DOGE he expressed opposition to Trump’s tariffs and butted heads with different administration officers, amongst them White Home commerce advisor Peter Navarro and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
