Elon Musk again attacked the centerpiece of Donald Trump‘s legislative agenda, the Big Beautiful Bill Act, this time calling the tax and spending package as a “disgusting abomination.”
Meanwhile, additional criticisms are being directed at the legislation from GOP lawmakers, including one who voted for it, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Musk wrote on X today, “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.”
“It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.”
At the White House briefing, Fox News’ Peter Doocy read off part of Musk’s comment. Doocy asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, “How mad do you think President Trump is going to be [about Trump’s comments]?”
She answered, “Look, 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 and he’s sticking to it.”
Musk appeared with Trump in the Oval Office last week, as a farewell of sorts as the billionaire wrapped up his official government service leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort to slash the federal government workforce.
The legislation passed the House by just one vote last month. The bill would extend and make permanent Trump’s 2017 income tax cuts, while expanding spending on defense and border security. Democrats were united in their opposition, as it would make cuts to Medicaid, clean energy and other social programs. The Tax Foundation estimated that it would add as much as $2.6 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. Other analyses put the figure even higher.
The Senate is taking up the bill this month. GOP critics, like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), have said that they could not support the bill because of the deficit increase.
Meanwhile, Greene wrote on X that she would have voted against the bill had she known that the bill includes a provision that restricts states from passing their own regulations on AI over the next decade.
She wrote, “Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years. I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there. We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous. This needs to be stripped out in the Senate. When the OBBB comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it. We should be reducing federal power and preserving state power. Not the other way around. Especially with rapidly developing AI that even the experts warn they have no idea what it may be capable of.”
The provision, though, had caught to attention of some in the Senate. At a hearing on the No Fakes Act, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said last month that she would oppose including that provision in the Senate version of the legislation.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) responded to Greene. “You have one job. To. Read. The. F–king. Bill.”
