🤖 vs 🏛️ Elon Musk to Trump: Your ‘Beautiful’ Bill Is a Budget Blunder 💬🚫

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  • 🏛️ WASHINGTON: Elon Musk has criticised the centrepiece of President Donald Trump's legislative agenda, a significant fracture in a partnership that was forged during last year's campaign and was poised to reshape American politics and the federal government.

  • 💰 The billionaire entrepreneur, who supported Trump's candidacy with at least $250 million and has worked for his administration as a senior adviser, said he was "disappointed" by what the president calls his "big beautiful bill".

  • 📜 The legislation includes a mix of tax cuts and enhanced immigration enforcement.

  • 🎙️ While speaking to CBS, Musk described it as a "massive spending bill" that increases the federal deficit and "undermines the work" of his Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE.

  • 💬 "I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful," Musk said. "But I don't know if it could be both."

  • 📺 His CBS interview came out on Tuesday night.

  • 🏛️ Republicans recently pushed the legislation through the House and are debating it in the Senate.

  • 🔙 Musk's comments come as he steps back from his government work, rededicating himself to companies like the electric automaker Tesla and rocket manufacturer SpaceX.

  • 💸 He's also said he'll reduce his political spending, because "I think I've done enough."

  • 🤯 At times, he's seemed chastened by his experience working in government.

  • 🎯 Although he hoped that DOGE would generate $1 trillion in spending cuts, he's fallen far short of that target.

  • 🗣️ "The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realised," he told The Washington Post.

  • 🏔️ "I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least."

  • 🗞️ Meanwhile, Trump said on Wednesday that he plans to negotiate aspects of the "big, beautiful" tax bill, expressing dissatisfaction with certain provisions while being satisfied with others.

  • 📢 "We will be negotiating that bill, and I'm not happy about certain aspects of it, but I'm thrilled by other aspects of it," Trump told reporters, without directly addressing Musk's concerns.

  • 🤝 He also emphasised the need to secure sufficient support for the bill's passage in the Senate, stating, "we can't be cutting, you know, we need to get a lot of support".

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