Elon Musk has flawed President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending bill, describing it as a “disgusting abomination”, according to a BBC report.
The budget, which includes multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and more defence spending while also allowing the US government to borrow more money, was passed by the House of Representatives last month.
Musk, who resigned his appointment as the coordinator of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) of the Trump’s administration a few days ago, in a post on X about the legislative linchpin of Trump’s second-term agenda, condemned the passage of the bill, saying “shame on those who voted for it.”
The tech billionaire left the Trump’s administration abruptly last week after 129 days of working to cut costs of governance.
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The BBC reported that the comments marked Musk’s first public disagreement with Trump since leaving government, after having previously called the plan “disappointing”.
The South African-born tech billionaire’s time in the Trump administration came to an end on 31 May, although Trump said that “he will, always, be with us, helping all the way”.
In its current form, the bill – which Trump refers to as the “big beautiful bill” – has been estimated to increase the budget deficit by about $600bn (£444bn) in the next fiscal year.
In a series of posts on X on Tuesday, Musk said that the “outrageous, pork-filled” spending bill will “massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America [sic] citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt”.
In American politics “pork” refers to spending on projects in lawmakers’ constituencies.
Musk had previously vowed to fund campaign challenges against any Republican that votes against Trump’s agenda. But on Tuesday he fired a warning to those who backed the bill.
“In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people,” he wrote.
