Elon Musk Also Hates the GOP Spending Bill (Unless He Meant “Disgusting Abomination” as a Compliment)

Elon Musk left his task wreaking havoc at the federal executive closing 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 destroy from denying the use of ketamine, Adderall, psychedelic mushrooms, and different elements all through his stint in politics, Musk took to X to inform his 220 million fans: “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 observe remarks he made in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning through which he stated he used to be “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 put up represents a slight escalation in complaint.

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 direction, Jeffries and Musk have very other causes for pondering the law is an abomination. Jeffries doesn’t love it as a result of, amongst different issues, it makes cuts to Medicaid that may reason thousands and thousands of other people to lose medical insurance and go away many thousands and thousands hungry because of cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—all to present tax breaks to the richest other people within the nation. Musk doesn’t love it as a result of he thinks the invoice doesn’t minimize sufficient (and, possibly, as it scraps the Biden management’s electrical car tax credit.)

Asked about Musk’s Tuesday remarks, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt instructed newshounds “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 law. 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.”

Of direction, Paul’s caution is most certainly handiest partly true: Yes, the debt will likely be Republicans’ fault however that may by no means forestall the GOP from blaming the entirety that is going unsuitable within the nation on Democrats. Many of them are most certainly workshopping 2026 stump speeches at the moment pinning regardless of the deficit swells to on Joe Biden.