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Musk on Trump's budget - >>> 'A disgusting abomination': Elon Musk doubles down on his criticism of Trump's big beautiful bill


Yahoo Finance

by Ben Werschkul and Daniel Howley

June 3, 2025


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-disgusting-abomination-elon-musk-doubles-down-on-his-criticism-of-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-181953569.html


Elon Musk offered his harshest rebuke yet of President Trump’s signature "big beautiful" tax and spending bill advancing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, saying it is instead "a disgusting abomination."

"Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong," he added in one of multiple posts.

Musk as well as other tech leaders have spoken out against the bill in recent days, but the new commentary Tuesday from the world's richest man (which numbered four Tuesday afternoon in quick succession) was a clear escalation of his effort against the package and earned quick endorsements from fiscal conservatives on Capitol Hill.

“He’s right,” posted Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who was one of the few Republicans to vote against the bill when it recently advanced in the House of Representatives.

Musk responded to Massie's response, calling it "simple math."

The post set Musk and President Trump up on polar opposites of the debate in Washington with the president set to push hard for the bill’s passage in coming weeks, including his own post Tuesday morning of fiscal conservatives who have criticized the bill’s multi-trillion dollar price tag.

"Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill, it doesn't change the president's opinion,”"said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Tuesday afternoon.

"This is one big beautiful bill and he's sticking to it," she added.

‘Undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing’
This isn’t the first time Musk has hit out at Trump’s reconciliation package.

In a recent interview with CBS, Musk said he was “disappointed” with the bill and claimed it "increases the budget deficit...and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing" in reference to the Department of Government Efficiency effort that Musk led until recently.

Musk oversaw DOGE leaving the White House to focus on his companies with his last day as a special government employee last Friday.

Musk appeared at the White House last week to mark the end of his time in Washington and declined to repeat his critiques of Trump's tax agenda.

He stood by silently as Trump said his "big, beautiful bill" would "cut deficits" — a claim that nearly every outside observer and Mr. Musk himself have said is false.

It was an event that saw the two men repeatedly praise each other in person, but Musk clearly had more to say on the package, which could add more than $3 trillion to the US national debt over the coming decade.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” he said in one of his posts.

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