Billionaire Elon Musk has criticised US President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful” tax and spending bill, saying it undermines his efforts to reduce the US budget deficit.
“So I was, frankly, upset to see a massive spending bill that increases the deficit instead of reducing it and puts the DOGE team at risk,” Mr. Musk said in an interview with CBS’s “Sunday Morning” program that aired Tuesday night.
“I think a bill can be either big or beautiful. I'm not sure it can be both,” Mr. Musk added in the interview.
Mr Musk, the world's richest man, was tapped by Mr Trump in February to manage the federal government's turmoil, becoming head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a massive tax and spending bill that would implement much of Trump's policy agenda and saddle the country with trillions of dollars in additional debt.
Mr Trump and his fellow Republicans, who passed the bill by a narrow margin, called it a “big, beautiful bill.”
Over the next decade, that would increase the federal government's debt by about $3.8 trillion, reaching $36.2 trillion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The US Senate is currently considering the measure.
The DOGE website, which claims to have saved US taxpayers billions of dollars, contains numerous errors and corrections.
Sourse: breakingnews.ie
