‘Disgusting abomination': Musk ramps up attack on Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill'
Washington: Elon Musk amplified his criticism of the sweeping tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump has been pushing fellow Republicans in Congress to embrace, calling it a 'disgusting abomination' that will increase the deficit.
'I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore,' the billionaire Musk wrote in an X post on Wednesday AEST.
'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 House of Representatives last month passed the bill by one vote, after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the measure – which would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were Trump's main legislative accomplishment in his first term – would add $US3.8 trillion ($5.9 trillion) to the federal government's $US36.2 trillion ($56 trillion) in debt
The Senate, also controlled by Trump's Republicans, aims to pass the measure in the next month, though senators are expected to revise the House-passed version of the bill.
Trump appointed Musk – the world's richest person – to lead a government cost-cutting and efficiency drive, during which he upended several federal agencies but ultimately failed to deliver the massive savings he had sought.
Musk left his formal role in the administration last week, as his time as a special government employee with the Department of Government Efficiency came to an end.
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