{"id":43050,"date":"2025-06-03T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43050"},"modified":"2025-06-03T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:00:22","slug":"musk-blasts-trumps-big-bill-after-leaving-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43050","title":{"rendered":"Musk blasts Trump\u2019s big bill after leaving White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Billionaire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/elon-musk\/\"><u>Elon Musk\u2002<\/u><\/a>ramped up his criticism of the megabill of President Trump\u2019s tax cut and spending priorities, calling the legislation a \u201cdisgusting abomination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I just can\u2019t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,\u201d Musk posted Tuesday on his social platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cShame on those who voted for it:&nbsp;<strong>you know you did wrong<\/strong>. You know it,\u201d Musk added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The legislation, officially titled the \u201c<strong>One Big Beautiful Bill<\/strong>,\u201d extends Trump\u2019s 2017 tax cuts and boosts funding for border and defense priorities, while making cuts to spending on social safety net programs such as Medicaid and food aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It passed the House last month and is being considered by the Senate, which is expected to make tweaks to the legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The comments come after top Republicans, including Speaker&nbsp;<strong>Mike Johnson<\/strong>&nbsp;(R-La.), pushed back on Musk telling \u201cCBS News Sunday Morning\u201d last week that the bill \u201cundermined\u201d the work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he spearheaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America [sic] citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt,\u201d Musk said in a follow-up post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/business-economy\/5331590-musk-bashes-trumps-abomination\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire&nbsp;Elon Musk\u2002ramped up his criticism of the megabill of President Trump\u2019s tax cut and spending priorities, calling the legislation a \u201cdisgusting abomination.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I just can\u2019t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,\u201d Musk posted Tuesday on his social platform X. \u201cShame on those who voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[1274,1330,1230],"class_list":["post-43050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bill","tag-musk","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43053,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43050\/revisions\/43053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}