Overview

• Elon Musk has blasted the tax-and-spending package as a “disgusting abomination” and warned it would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit while undoing his cost-cutting work at the Department of Government Efficiency.
• President Trump, who appointed Musk to lead DOGE before his May 29 departure, accused him of turning against the bill only after learning it phases out electric vehicle tax credits.
• Musk fired back on X, rejecting Trump’s claim that he’d reviewed the legislation and insisting the real problem is its “mountain of disgusting pork,” not just subsidy cuts.
• Senators such as Rand Paul and House Republicans including Thomas Massie have echoed Musk’s fiscal concerns, raising prospects of amendments that could stall the bill in the Senate.
• With once-solid GOP support fraying, party leaders now face a critical test to reconcile internal divisions before the Senate vote on Trump’s marquee fiscal proposal.