Elon Musk, about a week removed from his role as a special government employee who led the Department of Government Efficiency, further criticized a reconciliation budget bill working its way through Congress, saying a new one should be drafted.
“No one who actually reads the bill should be able to stomach it,” Musk wrote Wednesday in a post on X, which he owns.
Musk was responding to a post of a video of House Speaker Mike Johnson saying, “Elon and I left on a great note . And then yesterday, 24 hours later, he does a 180 and he comes out and opposes the bill, and it surprised me, frankly.”
In another post Wednesday on X, Musk wrote: “A new spending bill should be drafted that doesn’t massively grow the deficit and increase the debt ceiling by 5 TRILLION DOLLARS.”
Musk further responded to a post by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, of a video showing Warren Buffett advocating for a plan to eliminate the federal deficit by stating if the deficit is higher than 3% of gross domestic product, members of Congress are not eligible for reelection. The federal deficit as of 2023 is roughly 6.3% of GDP, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
“This is the way,” Musk wrote.
Musk unleashed Tuesday in a post on X regarding the legislation dubbed as President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” calling it a “disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
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