President Donald Trump's view of reducing costs has criticized bills that include Trump's domestic policy agenda because if enacted, it would cost the administration trillions of dollars.
Elon Musk, leader of Trump's “Department of Administration Efficiency”, said he was disappointed by the legislation, known as a “a large bill.”
“Frankly, I'm disappointed to see the huge spending bill, which increases the budget deficit, not just reduces it, and undermines the work the Doge team does,” Musk told CBS News in an interview clip released on Tuesday.
The legislation will add $3 trillion or more to the federal budget deficit over the next decade, with tax cuts partially offset only by reducing spending.
The White House and most other Republicans insist that, contrary to all budget experts, tax cuts are so good for businesses that they will cheer on the government’s revenue and make up the difference. So Musk, the president's close ally, poured it into the bill.
This is not like Musk has problems with the questionable predictions of the budget budget, for example, his statement is that his team of governors can find $1 trillion in savings per year by reducing government waste, or that they have canceled $175 billion in wastage so far, even if real-time federal data shows that government spending is roughly the same as last year.
Republicans pushed the “big and beautiful bill” to the House last week, but their peers who made changes in the Senate plan meant that both the Senate and the House would have to vote again, and the bill could then be sent to the president's desk.
A few right-wing House and Senate Republicans have had a big impact on the bill’s deficit. More meanings to increase Treasury bonds are with everything Republicans say about fiscal responsibility. However, it is unclear whether these questions will cause them to really block the bill.
Musk's team, under Trump's executive management, worked from within federal agencies, driving massive layoffs and other changes. Many of their actions have been tied together in federal courts because it should be Congress that controls federal spending, not the executive branch. The White House is hesitating to send a package of “revocation” to Congress, and lawmakers can vote to pass the compilation of Doge's layoffs.
In recent weeks, Musk said he intends to take a step back from his temporary White House role and spend more time on his company, including Tesla and SpaceX.
