几天后攻击巨嘴鸟这推进了唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统的立法议程,埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)周二再次抨击了这一点,在x上的一篇帖子中称其为“令人作呕的可憎之物”。
“对不起,但我实在受不了了。这个庞大的,令人愤慨的,充斥着猪肉的国会开支法案是令人厌恶的,”马斯克写道众议院通过的法案。“那些投赞成票的人应该感到羞耻:你知道你做错了。你知道的。”
马斯克随后发布了一系列帖子:一个声称该法案“将大幅增加已经庞大的预算赤字,达到2.5万亿美元(!!!)并让美国公民背上不堪重负的债务;”另一个是“国会正在让美国破产。”
“一个美丽的大法案”立法延长了特朗普2017年的减税计划,并增加了军事和边境安全支出,同时对医疗补助、SNAP和其他援助计划进行了一些削减。根据无党派的国会预算办公室的数据,未来十年,这还将使联邦政府的36.2万亿美元债务增加约3.8万亿美元。
参议院正在与总统就该法案进行协商打电话,和参议员开会试图让国会通过他的全面议程。
然而,议长迈克·约翰逊没有理会马斯克的批评,他在周二告诉记者,这位亿万富翁“在一个大而美丽的法案上犯了严重的错误”
“对他来说,潘和整个法案对我来说非常令人失望,非常令人惊讶,”约翰逊说,并补充说,两人周一发表了讲话。
“对埃隆或任何关心美国经济的人来说,这是一件危险的事情,”他说。“而我,我认为风险很大。我们必须通过这项立法。”
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩(John Thune)也驳斥了马斯克的批评,引用了不同的经济模式和该法案的增长和减赤潜力。
“很明显,我们尊重埃隆和多格所做的一切。在这个特殊的问题上,我们有不同的意见,”图恩在国会山的每周新闻发布会上告诉记者。
图恩说,他认为马斯克使用的是来自CBO的过时数据。
民主党人利用马斯克的评论提出了他们对共和党人和该法案的反对意见。
参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默在新闻发布会上举起一份打印出来的帖子,并表示他同意这位亿万富翁的观点。
“特朗普的哥们儿说这个法案很糟糕——你可以想象这个法案有多糟糕,”舒默说。
舒默在众议院的对手,众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯(Hakeem Jeffries)在另一场新闻发布会上回应了这些声明,他说:“突发新闻:埃隆·马斯克和我都同意。”Jeffrisk补充说,他和舒默将努力扼杀这项立法。
当被问及马斯克周二的评论时,白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特驳斥了他的批评。
“看,总统已经知道埃隆·马斯克在这项法案上的立场,”莱维特在白宫新闻发布会上说。“这不会改变总统的意见。这是一个大而美丽的法案,他坚持这样做。”
马斯克早些时候批评了该法案,称他对该法案感到“失望”哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的采访。
马斯克在接受哥伦比亚广播公司采访时表示:“坦率地说,我很失望看到庞大的支出法案,这增加了预算赤字,而不仅仅是减少了预算赤字,并破坏了总督团队正在做的工作。”
麝香第二天宣布他将离开特朗普政府,离开他作为监督政府效率部的“特别政府雇员”的角色。
周五,总统在椭圆形办公室与马斯克举行了新闻发布会,两人亲切地讨论了他的工作。
马斯克在新闻发布会上没有讨论他对该法案的批评。然而,特朗普吹捧这项支出法案。
“这是一个令人难以置信的法案。它会削减你的赤字。你知道,这是一个巨大的削减,但我想看到一些东西,也许削减更多。我希望看到更大幅度的减税,”他说。
Elon Musk attacks Trump's funding bill: 'Disgusting abomination'
ays afterattacking the megabillthat advances President Donald Trump's legislative agenda, Elon Musk slammed it again on Tuesday, calling it a "disgusting abomination" in a post on X.
"I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,"Musk wroteof the House-passed bill. "Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it."
Musk followed up with a flurry of posts: one claiming the bill "will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt;" another that "Congress is making America bankrupt."
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" legislation extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts and boosts spending for the military and border security -- while making some cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other assistance programs. It will also add about $3.8 trillion to the federal government's $36.2 trillion in debt over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Negotiations on the bill are underway in the Senate, with the presidentworking the phones and holding meetings with senatorsto try to get his sweeping agenda passed by Congress.
Speaker Mike Johnson, however, brushed off Musk's criticism, telling reporters Tuesday that the billionaire was "terribly wrong about the one big, beautiful bill."
"For him to come out and pan the whole bill is to me just very disappointing, very surprising," Johnson said, adding to that two spoke on Monday.
"That is a dangerous thing for Elon or anyone who has who cares about the U.S. economy to be meddling with," he said. "And I, I think the risk is very great. We have to pass this legislation."
Senate Majority Leader John Thune also dismissed Musk's criticism, citing differing economic models and the bill's potential for growth and deficit reduction.
"We obviously respect everything that Elon did with DOGE. On this particular issue, we have a difference of opinion," Thune told reporters during his weekly press conference on Capitol Hill.
Thune said he believes Musk is using outdated data from the CBO.
Democrats used Musk's comments to raise their objections to Republicans and the bill.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer held up a printout of the posts during a news conference and said he agreed with the billionaire.
"Trump's buddy says the bill is bad -- you can imagine how bad this bill is," Schumer said.
Schumer's counterpart in the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries echoed those statements in a separate news conference saying "breaking news: Elon Musk and I agree with each other." Jeffrisk added that he and Schumer will work to kill the legislation.
Asked about Musk's comments on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed his criticism.
"Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill," Leavitt said during the White House press briefing. "It doesn't change the president's opinion. This is one big, beautiful bill and he's sticking to it."
Musk had earlier criticized the bill, saying he was "disappointed" with it inan interview with CBS News.
"I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing," Musk told CBS News in an interview.
Muskannounced the next dayhe would depart the Trump administration and leave his role as a "special government employee" overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency.
The president held a news conference with Musk in the Oval Office on Friday where the pair cordially discussed his work.
Musk did not discuss his criticism of the bill during the news conference. Trump, however, touted the spending bill.
"It's an unbelievable bill. It cuts your deficits. It cuts, you know, it's a huge cutting, but there's things I'd like to see, maybe cut a little bit more. I'd like to see a bigger cut in taxes," he said.