The South African-born tech tycoon said Trump’s bill would increase the deficit and undermine the work of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has fired tens of thousands of people.
“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 said in an interview with CBS News, an excerpt of which aired late Tuesday.
But critics warn it will decimate health care and balloon the national deficit by as much as $4 trillion over a decade.
The White House sought to play down any differences over US government spending, without directly naming Musk.
All DOGE cuts would have to be carried out through a separate bill targeting the federal bureaucracy, according to US Senate rules, Miller added.
‘Whipping boy’
Musk complained in a separate interview with the Washington Post that DOGE, which operated out of the White House with a staff of young technicians, had become a lightning rod for criticism.
“Something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.”
“The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized,“ he said. “I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in DC, to say the least.”
Musk’s own businesses suffered in the meantime.
“People were burning Teslas. Why would you do that? That’s really uncool,“ Musk told the Post.
The tycoon last week also said he would pull back from spending his fortune on politics, having spent around a quarter of a billion dollars to support Trump.
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