Elon Musk has called the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” backed by President Donald Trump, a “massive, outrageous … spending bill” nearly one week after he said his time as a special government employee and lead for the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency was ending.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Mr. Musk said in a June 3 X post. “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 controversial bill, which could implement significant cuts to Medicaid and ACA reforms, passed the House of Representatives on May 22. It now heads to the Senate for a vote.
Mr. Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, first criticized the bill during a CBS Sunday Morning interview and said he was “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.”
President Trump responded to Mr. Musk’s comment and said that while he was “not happy about certain aspects” of the bill, he was “thrilled by other aspects of it,” USA Today reported May 28.
“The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill, it doesn’t change the president’s opinion,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a June 3 press conference.
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