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After weeks of being withdrawn from Washington politics, Elon Musk suddenly sent a shock wave through the Senate.
On Tuesday, CBS released a clip of Musk criticizing what President Donald Trump calls the “big, beautiful bill”—a budget reconciliation package that would ensure funding for major campaign promises, such as border security and the extension of Trump’s first-term 2017 tax cuts.
"I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful. But I don't know if it could be both."
— CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) May 28, 2025
Tech billionaire Elon Musk tells CBS Sunday Morning's @Pogue he was "disappointed" to see the Trump-backed "big beautiful" spending bill, which passed in the House last week.
Musk said… pic.twitter.com/LUcuTaNYrs
“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the [Department of Government Efficiency] team is doing,” he said. “I think a bill can be big, or it could be beautiful. But I don’t know if it could be both.”
That was music to the ears of fiscal hawks in the Senate, who are calling for major amendments to the bill that the House just passed.
Appearing on Fox on Wednesday morning, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., echoed Musk’s remarks and called for line-by-line cuts to spending in order to honor DOGE’s commitment to making spending cuts.
“You’ve got to go through every line. You’re not going to do enough if you just focus on the Green New Deal and you just focus on making sure Medicaid goes back to its original purpose,” said Scott. The Green New Deal is an ambitious and very expensive plan to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels and drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., one of the Senate’s most ardent advocates of spending cuts, also jumped into the fray.
“We have to take a business approach—DOGE has shown us how—go line-by-line through the $7,000 billion budget to expose the grotesque waste, fraud, and abuse,” said Johnson Wednesday in response to Musk. --->READ MORE HERE
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Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk told CBS News Tuesday he is “disappointed” in the spending codified in Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill.”
“I 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,” the Tesla CEO said.
“I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful,” he continued with a smile. “But I don’t know if it could be both.”
After months of negotiations and 48 straight hours of work, House Republicans successfully passed the budget reconciliation bill. House Speaker Mike Johnson has been urging the Senate to alter the legislation as little as possible given the “delicate” consensus House GOP leadership crafted on the president’s landmark bill, but President Donald Trump approved Senate Republicans making “the changes they want” in the sweeping tax and spending bill.
Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller responded to criticisms that the spending bill does not “codify the DOGE cuts” earlier Tuesday. --->READ MORE HERE
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