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Elon Musk said he is “disappointed” with President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill passed by the House last week, offering his most direct criticism of a signature White House policy after recently stepping back from his work as the leader of the government’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Elon Musk said he was disappointed with the Trump-backed "Big Beautiful Bill."
Musk said: “I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it,” in an interview excerpt released by CBS on Tuesday night.
The billionaire added that the expansive budget bill also “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
The billionaire told CBS that he thinks “a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don't know if it can be both,” before adding that it was his “personal opinion.”
Musk’s comments are the most stark and public criticism of a piece of legislation championed by Trump, although the president has not reacted yet.
The excerpt released by the network is part of a longer interview, which will air on June 1 during the CBS Sunday Morning show.
$3.3 trillion. That it the amount Trump’s budget bill is expected to add to the federal debt over the next 10 years, according to an estimate published by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The fiscal watchdog group warned this number could rise by an additional $5.2 trillion if lawmakers “ultimately extend temporary provisions.”