Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has publicly voiced his disappointment with the recently passed House spending bill, officially known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
In a preview of an interview set to air on “CBS Sunday Morning,” Musk stated, “I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit… and it undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
The bill, which passed the House last Thursday, includes extensions of the 2017 tax cuts, increased funding for border security and national defense, and reforms to Medicaid.
However, it also raises the debt limit by $4 trillion, a point of contention for fiscal conservatives.
Musk, who spearheaded cost-cutting efforts at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), expressed concern that the bill’s provisions counteract the department’s mission.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill will add $3.8 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade.
Musk’s critique aligns with concerns from other fiscal conservatives who argue that the bill’s spending increases overshadow its cost-saving measures.
Musk remarked, “I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful. But I don’t know if it could be both.”
The bill now moves to the Senate, where it faces scrutiny from both sides of the aisle.
Some Republicans are calling for deeper spending cuts, while others express concern over specific provisions, such as Medicaid reforms and the rollback of green energy tax credits.
DOGE’s Efforts and Musk’s Shift in Focus
Under Musk’s leadership, DOGE aimed to reduce government spending and increase efficiency.
Despite reported savings of $160 billion through agency closures and workforce reductions, the department’s efforts appear undermined by the new legislation’s spending increases.
Musk has indicated a desire to refocus on his business ventures, including Tesla and SpaceX, citing the need to be “super focused” on launching critical technologies.
He has also suggested a reduction in political involvement moving forward.
Bill guts or reduces DOGE & we all Lose
Thanks the DC Deep State
Trump Admin would NOT gut DOGE or would they??
I can fully understand Mr. Musks frustration with this “beautifully terrible bill”. It included spending on necessary things but then goes nuts on crap that does not belong anywhere but the trash can. This bill was supposed to “CUT USELESS SPENDING”. not increase it. I would not vote for it if I were in Congress. I believe that Mike Johnson is afraid to say “NO” even when something is wrong. Keep the good things but remove the gifts to the demonRSATS. DOGE has been finding tens of billions of dollars of waste that if applied to the budget should make it smaller but ridiculously makes it worse. After cutting those tens or hundreds of billion from the budget and it still goes up is unconscionable. Make the cuts real first. Then go line by line and ask one question; “is this item really, really, really necessary?”. That is not how Congress works on a budget. They take the old budget and just increase it every time without even looking at 90% of the line items. Instead they need say “we will cut the over all budget by 10%” then go line by line selecting the items that can’t be cut at all and increase the cuts to those that are less necessary. That is how every business and household cuts their budget because they don’t have vulnerable taxpayers to get more money from.
Every member of Congress needs to be forced to take a course on Economics 101. Then they need to be told by we who pay for their ridiculous pipe dreams have had “ENOUGH” of their nonsense. You don’t tell us how much you want, because we tell you how much we will accept
to pay for a government out of control. Every time they raise the budget we are forced to change our budgets by lowering them. You people are “our” employees. If you don’t like that arrangement then go get a different job that allows you to fail yet keep your jobs. America isn’t the place anymore.