Musk calls Trump’s tax-cut bill ‘disgusting abomination’

X owner Elon Musk plunged into the congressional debate over United States President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, calling it a “disgusting abomination” that will increase the federal deficit.

Several fiscally conservative Republicans in the U.S. Senate supported the views Musk expressed in social media posts, which could complicate the bill’s path to passage in that chamber.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk wrote on X on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

He added: “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

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Republican deficit hawks have expressed concerns about the cost of the bill, which would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were Trump’s main legislative accomplishment, while boosting spending on the military and border security.

The House of Representatives passed it by one vote last month, after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the measure would add $3.8 trillion to the federal government’s $36.2 trillion in debt.

The Senate, also controlled by Trump’s Republicans, aims to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” in the next month, though senators are expected to revise the House version, Reuters reported.

Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees tax policy, are due to meet with Trump at the White House on Wednesday afternoon to discuss making the bill’s business-related tax breaks permanent, according to Senator Steve Daines, a panel member.

Analysts have warned that such a move would greatly increase the measure’s cost.

The Star