{"id":116004,"date":"2025-06-04T10:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/musk-calls-trumps-tax-bill-a-disgusting-abomination\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:03:35","slug":"musk-calls-trumps-tax-bill-a-disgusting-abomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/musk-calls-trumps-tax-bill-a-disgusting-abomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk calls Trump\u2019s tax bill a \u2018disgusting abomination\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 3 \u2013 Elon Musk has hit out at President Donald Trump\u2019s signature tax and spending bill, describing it as a \u201cdisgusting abomination\u201d, in a widening rift between the two allies.<\/p>\n<p>The budget \u2013 which includes multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and more defence spending while also allowing the US government to borrow more money \u2013 was passed by the House of Representatives last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShame on those who voted for it,\u201d Musk said in a post on X about the legislative linchpin of Trump\u2019s second-term agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The tech billionaire left the administration abruptly last week after 129 days working to cut costs with his team, known as Doge.<\/p>\n<p>The comments mark his first public disagreement with Trump since leaving government,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c20q54vn0evo\">after having previously called the plan \u201cdisappointing\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The South African-born tech billionaire\u2019s time in the Trump administration came to an end on 31 May, although Trump said that \u201che will, always, be with us, helping all the way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In its current form, the bill \u2013 which Trump refers to as the \u201cbig beautiful bill\u201d \u2013 has been estimated to increase the budget deficit \u2013 the difference between what the government spends and the revenue it receives \u2013 by about $600bn (\u00a3444bn) in the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of posts on X on Tuesday, Musk said that the \u201coutrageous, pork-filled\u201d spending bill will \u201cmassively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America [sic] citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In American politics \u201cpork\u201d refers to spending on projects in lawmakers\u2019 constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who had previously vowed to fund campaign challenges against any Republican that votes against Trump\u2019s agenda, added a political warning in another post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 3 \u2013 Elon Musk has hit out at President Donald Trump\u2019s signature tax and spending bill, describing it as a \u201cdisgusting abomination\u201d, in a widening rift between the two allies. The budget \u2013 which includes multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and more defence spending while also allowing the US government to borrow more money \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}