Elon Musk said the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is a “disgusting abomination.” “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk said. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” he added. I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. 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. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025 Screenshot: From the New York Post: The 53-year-old added in subsequent posts that the bill “will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America [sic] citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.” In a third post, Musk groused that “Congress is making America bankrupt.” “In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people,” he later fumed. Musk had previously dropped hints of his disdain for the megabill, politely telling “CBS Sunday Morning” in an interview that he was “disappointed” to see that the legislation increases the deficit and “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.” “The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in response to Musk’s tirade. “It doesn’t change his opinion.” “He’s right,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) commented. He’s right. https://t.co/7mZv6uewve — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 3, 2025 “Simple math,” Musk responded. Simple math https://t.co/ZQn6mXTI86 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025 “The Senate can make this bill better,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said. Federal spending has become excessive The resulting inflation harms Americans And weaponizes government The Senate can make this bill better It must now do so https://t.co/VMqP9h2Uvg — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 3, 2025 Per USA TODAY: House Speaker Mike Johnson, who helped Trump advance the legislation in the House, told reporters that he spoke to Musk for 20 minutes on June 2 and that he’s “terribly wrong” about the bill. “For him to come out and pan the whole bill is to me just very disappointing,” Johnson told The Hill. “Very surprising in light of the conversation I had with him yesterday.” Musk’s fiscal objections to Trump’s bill mirror concerns held by some Republican senators ‒ including Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin ‒ whose votes are crucial for Trump to pass the legislation with only Republican support. “I agree with Elon,” Paul said in a post on X. “We have both seen the massive waste in government spending and we know another $5 trillion in debt is a huge mistake. We can and must do better.” Paul has said he will vote against the bill if not changes are made, prompting Trump to lash out at the Kentucky senator earlier in the day in a post on Truth Social. “Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him,” Trump wrote.

Some good news to pass along…. Big progress is being made in getting the DOGE spending cuts codified into actual law passed by Congress. Yes, $9.4 billion is not everything we need, but it’s a start and movement in the right direction. Sometimes you have to baby-step things and I’m happy to see motion and progress in the right direction: BREAKING: House Freedom Caucus is reportedly ready to codify $9.4 billion in DOGE spending cuts into law, per Fox. — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) June 3, 2025 Fox News reports the progress is being driven by the White House together with the Freedom Caucus: The House Freedom Caucus is demanding the House of Representatives vote on the White House’s impending $9.4 billion federal spending cut proposal the same week it lands on Capitol Hill. The conservative group, led by Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., is drawing its line in the sand on Monday with an official position on the coming package, which is expected to call for clawing back government funding for NPR, PBS and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “When the White House submits its first rescissions package to enact [Department of Government Efficiency] spending cuts to Congress, the House of Representatives should immediately move this to the floor for swift passage,” the Freedom Caucus position said. “The House Freedom Caucus strongly supports these critical rescissions, and we will support as many more rescissions packages as the White House can send us in the coming weeks and months. These first DOGE cuts target taxpayer-funded public broadcasters notorious for their liberal bias like NPR and PBS, as well as billions in wasteful foreign aid dollars.” It comes as Elon Musk’s time leading President Donald Trump’s DOGE effort comes to an end, with the tech billionaire shifting his focus back to Tesla and his other private ventures after his billions of dollars in proposed spending cuts drove a partisan wedge through Congress. “Passing this rescissions package will be an important demonstration of Congress’ willingness to deliver on DOGE and the Trump agenda,” the statement continued. “While the Swamp will inevitably attempt to slow and kill these cuts, there is no excuse for a Republican House not to advance the first DOGE rescissions package the same week it is presented to Congress then quickly send it for passage in the Republican Senate, so President Trump can sign it into law.” The White House is expected to send its $9.4 billion spending cuts package to Congress on Tuesday. The proposal is called a “rescissions package,” a vehicle for the president to block funds that were already allocated by Congress in its yearly appropriations process. Once transmitted to Capitol Hill, lawmakers have 45 days to take it up before it’s voided. NBC News confirms the progress is being driven by the White House making this request to Congress to get off their butts and get to work: Here’s more from NBC News, admitting the $9.4 billion is a drop in the bucket and also noting this now competes with the crypto regulation Bill: The $9.4 billion represents a drop in the bucket when set against the $6.8 trillion that the U.S. government spends annually. And it comes as congressional Republicans are seeking to pass a sprawling domestic policy bill, which would add more than $2 trillion to the debt. Still, spending hawks see it as an important step toward undoing authorized spending, which is rare. Rescission packages usually fail because Congress, which controls the power of the purse, typically rejects attempts by a president to decline to allocate certain spending it has directed. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Monday that the expectation is the House would consider the rescissions package first and then the Senate would take it up “as quickly as we can.” He said the Senate will have to juggle it with a crypto regulation bill and the legislation for Trump’s agenda already in the pipeline. Congress would have 45 days to pass the package once it is submitted. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the chair of the Appropriations Committee, said there are still some questions about the process, telling reporters Monday, “We’re still talking with the parliamentarian about what can and can’t be done,” referring to the in-house referee for Senate rules. “It’s extremely complex and the rules, because there hasn’t been a successful rescission package in many, many years,” she said. Still….it’s progress! I’ll take it for now, but this must be the beginning not the end.

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