Elon Musk left his job wreaking havoc on the federal authorities final week, however he nonetheless has ideas about what his former boss is as much as: Namely, he believes Donald Trump’s spending invoice is a “disgusting abomination.” And he doesn’t care who is aware of it!
Taking a break from denying utilizing ketamine, Adderall, psychedelic mushrooms, and different substances throughout his stint in politics, Musk took to X to inform his 220 million followers: “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.” Musk’s feedback comply with remarks he made in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning wherein he stated he was “disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing. I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both.” Obviously, his Tuesday afternoon publish represents a slight escalation in criticism.
Democrats have unsurprisingly taken the chance to focus on Musk’s anger with the invoice. On X, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote: “The GOP Tax Scam is a disgusting abomination. Truer words have never been spoken.” Of course, Jeffries and Musk have very totally different causes for pondering the laws is an abomination. Jeffries doesn’t prefer it as a result of, amongst different issues, it makes cuts to Medicaid that can trigger hundreds of thousands of individuals to lose medical insurance and depart many hundreds of thousands hungry on account of cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—all to provide tax breaks to the richest individuals within the nation. Musk doesn’t prefer it as a result of he thinks the invoice doesn’t lower sufficient (and, maybe, as a result of it scraps the Biden administration’s electrical car tax credit.)
Asked about Musk’s Tuesday remarks, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt advised reporters “The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill. It doesn’t change the president’s opinion. This is one big beautiful bill.”
Other lawmakers have additionally spoken out in opposition to the laws. Senator Rand Paul warned on Tuesday, “Once this bill votes, and this debt ceiling goes through, the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying ‘this is the Democrats.’ It will be owned by the Republicans, and I think that’s a huge mistake.”
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Of course, Paul’s warning might be solely partially true: Yes, the debt will likely be Republicans’ fault however that can on no account cease the GOP from blaming every little thing that goes mistaken within the nation on Democrats. Many of them are most likely workshopping 2026 stump speeches proper now pinning regardless of the deficit swells to on Joe Biden.