Elon Musk Unloads On Republicans' 'Disgusting Abomination' Big Beautiful Bill

Former White House adviser Elon Musk has exploded at Republicans over the so-called Big Beautiful Bill cutting taxes and Medicaid. Just days after leaving his temporary position at the White House, Musk blasted Republicans for moving a bill that would expand budget deficits by more than $2 trillion.“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on X. “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.”The legislation includes nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts, mostly favouring wealthy households, and only partially offsets their cost with more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and federal food benefits. Federal budget deficits would increase by the amount of the difference between the tax and spending cuts. Musk had previously said he was “disappointed” by the bill, prompting several Republicans to claim he didn’t understand it. But Musk made clear he was familiar with budget scorekeepers’ estimates of the legislation’s cost. “It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt,” Musk wrote in a follow-up post. Asked about Musk’s commentary, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed it was nothing new. “Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,” Leavitt said during a press briefing. “It doesn’t change the president’s opinion ― this is one big, beautiful bill and he is sticking to it.”But there’s no question Musk’s messages marked a major escalation from his prior criticism ― one that could prove problematic for getting the bill to the president’s desk. Musk, after all, is the very person Republicans celebrated as the Trump administration’s master of efficiency, its scourge of government waste, its visionary for reducing federal budget deficits. Two Republican senators, Mike Lee and Rand Paul, immediately signalled their agreement. “I agree with Elon,” Paul wrote. “We have both seen the massive waste in government spending and we know another $5 trillion in debt is a huge mistake.” For him to come out and pan the whole bill is, to me, just very disappointing, very surprising.House Speaker Mike JohnsonThe House passed the legislation last month, and the Senate is working on its own version of the bill, with some Republicans wanting milder Medicaid cuts and others pushing for deeper spending cuts. Both chambers will have to vote again before it can go to the president’s desk. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who said he spoke to Musk about the bill on Monday, chose not to hide his disappointment ― and he suggested Musk, the owner of an electric car company, may be motivated by the bill’s cuts to electric vehicle tax credits. “I know the EV mandate is very important to him. That is going away, because the government should not be subsidising these things as part of the Green New Deal. I know that has an effect on his business, and I’ll admit that,” Johnson told reporters. “For him to come out and pan the whole bill is, to me, just very disappointing, very surprising.”Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Musk is going by an inaccurate estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, which analysed the provisions of a prior version of the legislation. The CBO will put out a new analysis of the bill on Wednesday. “My hope is as he has an opportunity to further assess what the bill does, he’ll come to a different conclusion,” Thune said. Other Republicans sought to downplay Musk’s influence. “I don’t think it’s going to change anybody’s mind,” Senator Shelley Moore Capito told HuffPost. Senator Markwayne Mullin declined to comment, saying he wanted to see the tweet before doing so. When HuffPost offered to show it to him, he declined again.Democrats cheered Musk’s attack on the legislation and appeared ready to taking his branding suggestion. They’d previously called it the “tax scam” and “the big ugly bill.” “The GOP Tax Scam is a disgusting abomination. Truer words have never been spoken,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said online. Senator Bernie Sanders pointed to the bill’s tax cuts for high-earners and its cuts to Medicaid and food assistance. “Let’s defeat this disgusting abomination,” Sanders wrote.

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