Musk Throws Trump Under the Bus and Trashes Budget
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What did Elon Musk say about the Trump‑Johnson budget bill?
Donald Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson just got thrown under the bus and trashed by none other than Elon Musk, who came out strongly against the disastrous budget bill. Elon Musk posted on ex-formerly Twitter, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination Shame on those who voted for it. You know you did wrong. You know it. So Elon Musk basically saying, shame on you, Donald Trump. Shame on you, MAGA Mike Johnson. I'm out. I'm out of the administration and I am wagging my finger and I am making it public that I am here to tank this disastrous budget bill. Elon Musk continues and he posts, it will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt, to which MAGA Republican Congress member Thomas Massey posted, he's right.
And then Elon Musk responded, it is simple math. Elon Musk then posts, Congress is making America bankrupt. Then Marjorie Taylor Greene makes a post saying she just uncovered a provision in the budget deal that makes her future vote a no unless it gets removed. She writes, full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278 to 279 of the budget bill that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years. I am adamantly opposed to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted no if I had known this was in there. We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free reign and tying states hands is potentially dangerous. This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.
When the bill comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, apparently Marge didn't read the bill before she voted on it. We read the bill here on the Midas Touch Network. We called out that provision among many others. Senator Bernie Sanders goes, Musk is right. This bill is a disgusting abomination. We shouldn't give $664 billion in tax breaks to the 1%. We shouldn't throw 13.7 million people off of Medicaid. We shouldn't cut $290 billion from programs to feed the hungry. Let's defeat this disgusting abomination. Our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, all the radical left Marxists like Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and Elon Musk now oppose Trump and Mike Johnson's budget bill.
Let me take you inside the Capitol building where MAGA Mike Johnson was asked to respond about Elon Musk saying this whole entire bill needs to go into the garbage. A very defensive MAGA Mike Johnson here. Play this clip.
Mr. Speaker, what do you say to Elon Musk who just called the bill disgusting?
Yeah, let me say this. It's very disappointing. I've come to consider Elon a good friend. He's obviously a very intelligent person and he's done a lot of great work. We've applauded all the work they've done with DOGE in identifying fraud, waste, and abuse in the government. It's a very important service that's been performed, and we're so excited about it, we're now in the process of codifying that. As you all know, the administration has qualified and quantified the fraud, waste, and abuse that they found in DOGE. They're sending it to us to codify, and that's what we'll be doing with the rescissions package and the appropriations process. And so that's something we're very excited about. But with all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big, beautiful bill.
We had a long conversation yesterday. He and I spoke for, I think, more than 20 minutes on the telephone, and I stole all the virtues of the bill. He seemed to understand that. We had a very friendly conversation about it, and I told him, that we're achieving not only all of our priorities, all the promises we made on the campaign trail, all the America First agenda wrapped into this legislation. We're also achieving, the top line on this is two very important things. We're making permanent a massive tax cut and we are making a massive reduction in spending.
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