Just days after officially departing Donald Trump’s White House, Elon Musk unleashed his true feelings about the president’s agenda.
The tech billionaire took to his X platform on Tuesday, June 3, to tear apart Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” a government spending behemoth currently going back and forth for approvals in Congress.
Trump’s White House has framed the bill as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to cement an America First agenda,” but Musk is concerned with the bill’s high price tag. In his latest post about the matter, he widened the divide between him and the Trump administration by going off on MAGA Republicans for falling in line with the president.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk, 53, wrote. “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 continued his rant in a second post, claiming, “It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.”
Musk then reposted information about the country’s growing deficit, adding the comment, “Congress is making America bankrupt.”
The Tesla CEO — who, until May 30, headed up Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency — previously expressed his displeasure with the bill, though he used much tamer language.
“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,” he told CBS Sunday Morning in late May.
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is funding its tax cuts and military spending in part by cutting some federal health and energy programs. However, it is also poised to add an estimated $3.8 trillion to the national deficit, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both,” Musk said.
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Musk was one of Trump’s biggest supporters during his 2024 campaign, donating nearly $275 million, and was a key adviser during the first few months of his second term. However, it seems like it didn’t take very long for the two to become disillusioned with one another.
In a report from The Wall Street Journal released on Musk’s final day as a government employee, Trump administration officials quoted the president as recently asking his advisers, “Was it all bulls—?” in regard to Musk’s promise to dramatically slash costs via his work with DOGE.
While Musk at one time claimed that he could save the government $2 trillion, DOGE’s most recent estimate is that it’s saved $175 billion — and even that figure has been framed as an overestimate by multiple news outlets that tracked down the receipts. Plus, the Trump administration has learned that the high cost of legal fees associated with Musk’s actions — plus the dip in revenue as a result of DOGE’s cuts — largely negates those savings.
According to the WSJ, Musk would keep DOGE’s work so secretive that top administration officials would learn what was happening from the news. Over the course of his White House tenure, he raised eyebrows by insulting trade adviser Peter Navarro, interrupting Cabinet meetings to gripe about how his government work was affecting his businesses, and privately lobbying against Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, saying they would be “terrible for the global economy,” the report claimed.
