By Daniel Chaitin | Daily Wire
"Shame on those who voted for it."
On Tuesday, tech billionaire Elon Musk unleashed his ire at the House-passed version of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which has the blessing of his former boss, President Donald Trump.
The massive bill, which is now being considered by the Republican-led Senate, contains many provisions in line with Trump’s second-term agenda, but also is estimated to add trillions of dollars to the national debt, already nearing $37 trillion.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk said in a post on X. “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.” He added in another post, “It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America (sic) citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shrugged off the critique when a reporter asked how “mad” Trump will be when he finds out what Musk said about the legislation.
“Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill. It doesn’t change the president’s opinion. This is ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ and he’s sticking to it,” Leavitt said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) argued that Musk was “simply wrong” in his assessment of the legislation and emphasized that Congress is “working hard” to get the measure to Trump’s desk by July 4 “so we can deliver on the mandate the American people gave us.”
On the Democrat side, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said, “The GOP Tax Scam is a disgusting abomination. Truer words have never been spoken.”
After the bill narrowly passed through the GOP-controlled House last month, Trump hailed it as “arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that will ever be signed in the History” of the United States. However, the president has given his blessing to GOP senators, some of whom have also raised objections to the bill in its current form, to “make the changes they want.”