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June 4, 2025

"A Disgusting Abomination": Elon Musk Blasts Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" 
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President Trump is pressing Senate Republicans to approve the One Big
Beautiful Bill Act, a sprawling bill to fund tax breaks for the wealthy
by gutting social programs like SNAP, Medicare and Medicaid. Senate
holdouts include Kentucky's Rand Paul, who said he's not open to
supporting a $5 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling. On
Tuesday, Republican holdouts got the support of Elon Musk, who wrote on
X, "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."


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