Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday issued a scathing rebuke against President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” torching the legislation as a “ disgusting abomination.”
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote on his X platform, just days after leaving the Trump administration. “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.”
He added in a subsequent post: “It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.”
Budget experts have estimated that the tax bill could add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal deficit in the coming years.
“He’s right,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) posted in response to Musk’s posts.
Musk, who officially left the White House on Friday, had previously told CBS News that he believed it was a “massive spending bill” that “undermines” the work of his Department of Government Efficiency operation.
“The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in response to Musk’s comments. “It doesn’t change his opinion.”
President Trump has ramped up his efforts to pass the “big, beautiful bill” by meeting with and calling GOP senators, urging them to back the measure.
Trump roasted Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Truth Social for opposing his spending bill.
“Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting “NO” on everything, he thinks it’s good politics, but it’s not. The BBB is a big WINNER!!!” Trump wrote, adding, “Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!”
The “BBB” narrowly passed the House last month before lawmakers in both chambers left for the Memorial Day recess. Both moderate and conservative Republicans in the Senate plan to make “changes to provisions involving Medicaid, green energy tax credits, deficit reduction and the debt ceiling,” the Hill reported.
The Trump White House on Tuesday sent Congress a rescission package to codify $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts to USAID, National Public Radio (NPR), and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
As the rescissions package only requires a simple majority in the House and the Senate, Republicans could easily bypass Democrat naysayers to pass the bill.