In an interview with CBS News, Elon Musk, owner of the billionaire and SpaceX, said that he was “disappointed” in the massive legislative package of tax cuts, border financing and more priorities by President Donald Trump. (Photo with the kind permission of CBS Sunday morning)
In an interview excerpt, Elon Musk says that he was “disappointed” in the massive legislative package of tax cuts, border financing of the US House GOP, President Donald Trump’s priorities, and informed the CBS news that the law would undermine the work of its American Doge service in order to shorten the government’s expenses.
The interview that was part of it Published on Tuesday evening As a preview of the edition of “CBS Sunday Morning” of this weekend, the first public tear between Musk, the richest man in the world and a great sponsor of Trump’s 2024 campaign, and the president, who gave him an influential position in his second white house stint.
After a day full of news about Musk’s criticism of Bill Trump, he officially left his role of the White House on Wednesday evening. Musks Social Media Contributions In the past few weeks, showing that he had released his attention back to his interests of the private sector.
“Since my planned time comes to an end as a special government employee, I would like to thank the President @Raldonaldtrump For the possibility of reducing wasteful expenses, “wrote Musk on Wednesday. @Doge The mission will only strengthen over time because it becomes a way of life in the entire government. “
In the last few days of the Musk presidential campaign said He was able to find 2 trillion dollars a year in the federal budget.
The legislation, which Trump has promoted as “Big, Beautiful Bill”, works against the goals that Musk set when he led the efficiency of the Ministry of Government, which tried to reduce the size of the federal employees, said Musk.
“I was disappointed to honestly see the massive expenditure calculation, which increases the budget deficit, not only reduces and undermining the work that the Doge team does,” said Musk. “I think an invoice can be big or it can be nice. But I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.”
The GOP calculation reduces Medicaid, adds the deficit
The US house closely existed The 1,100-page legislation last week with all Democrats and two Republicans voted against it. The Republicans of the Senate plan to exploit the convoluted budget reconciliation process to adopt the bill without exposing it to the usual 60-controlled threshold of the chamber for legislation.
The measure includes an extension of tax cuts in 2017, changes to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is expected to reduce the federal expenditure for services for almost 1 trillion US dollar over a decade and escalate the financing for Department of Defense and border security initiatives.
The account of the house would add 2.3 trillion dollars to the federal deficit over 10 years. According to the impartial congress office of the congress.
Musk and Republicans who want to reduce the federal government have asked to take measures on the basis of DOGES recommendations.
Trump ‘not content about certain aspects’
Asked for Musk’s comments during an Oval Office event on Wednesday, Trump praised The work of the speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson and the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., found the slim majorities in both chambers.
He also observed the tax cuts contained in the law, but admitted that he was not “about certain aspects of the law” – although the government was issued Administrative policy To support and say that Trump would sign it into the law.
“But I’m thrilled with other aspects,” he said. “This is how they go. It is very big. It’s the big, beautiful calculation. But the nice thing is because of all the things we have. The greatest is that I would say the level of tax reduction we will do.”
Johnson, who spent weeks to negotiate with different factions of his conference to gain the adoption of the measure Post to XWhat Muschus has.
The Republican of Louisiana praised Musk’s work and promised to promise expenses in invoices that are outside the budget reconciliation process: annual middle invoices and a recision package that does not issue money from previous laws for funds.
“@Elonmusk and the entire @Doge team did incredible work to uncover waste, fraud and abuse throughout the federal government,” wrote Johnson. “The house is eager and ready to react to Doges results so that we can provide the great government that President Trump wants and the American people can deliver even more cuts.”
New plan for billions of cuts that is on the go
Johnson repeated a post by the Deputy Chief of the White House, Stephen Miller, who said that the rules for the reconciliation of the budget had to be challenging to reduce significant parts of the discretionary editions, which is separated from the most significant reductions that were forecast to the obligatory medical and SNAP programs.
The administration plans to send the Republicans to the Republicans next week Report in politico This quoted unnamed Republicans and administrative sources of the house. The report was published after the Musk comments were published on the CBS News website.
On X, Johnson said the annual means for the means that the congress started with formal work this month with department heads with sub -strusts with hearings would also make spending cuts.
However, the adults warned of the administration’s aggressive cuts.
MP Mike Simpson, a Republican of Idaho, who heads the subcommittee of the House appropriation, who writes the Finance Act for Environmental Programs. told Interior Minister Doug Burgum The committee would probably finance its department through the administration’s application.
Burgum said that he would comply with the amount of expenditure that the congress approved.
