Why Did Elon Musk Unload on Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’?

Elon Musk, less than a week removed from his term as a special government employee in charge of the newly configured and controversial Department of Government Efficiency, was frustrated at failing to win favorable treatment with the reconciliation budget bill and with the Trump administration as a whole.

That is what Axios reported Tuesday, citing two anonymous sources who are in frequent communication with Musk and President Donald Trump as it attempted to examine why Musk went public with a lashing of the bill as an unsupportable abonination.

Musk unleashed Tuesday in a post on X, which he owns, regarding the legislation dubbed the “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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