A few days after he left his position in the Donald Trump administration, Elon Musk He said he was not very happy with the president’s favorite draft spending law.
“I am sorry, but I cannot stand anymore,” Musa wrote in A. After x Tuesday. “The huge and sexy Congressing draft of the files filled with pork is disgusting abomination. A shame for those who voted in his favor: you know that you made a mistake. You know that.”
As head of Trump’s creation Ministry of Governmental efficiencyTechnical billionaire It is practiced by the craftsman While organizing huge federal layoffs to reduce costs. Less than a week after leaving this position, MUSK criticized the lawmakers of the Republican Party to increase debt through a “beautiful, beautiful draft law”.
“It will increase greatly from the already giant budget deficit to $ 2.5 trillion (!!!) and the burden of American citizens with very unsustainable debts,” he wrote.
According to Congress budget office analysisThe draft law will reduce the federal funding of Snap and Medicaid by more than 800 billion dollars during the next decade, with the federal deficit increased by $ 3.8 trillion.
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This is not the first time that Musk has expressed his dissatisfaction with the bill. In an interview with CBS News Last week, Musk said he was “disappointed” in the spending bill, Who passed the house Voting 215-214.
Musk said: “I think the bill can be large or can be beautiful, but I don’t know whether it could be both,” Musk said.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Caroline Levitte told reporters that Musk’s criticism of the draft law does not change Trump’s opinion.
“The president really knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,” she said.
The bill has not yet passed the Senate, however A senior White House official told NPR The “comprehensive invitation effort” to obtain the bill will be through the upper chamber.
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