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Elon Musk has raised concerns about the Tax and Expenditure Package for President Donald Trump, saying in a video published on Tuesday that it thought it would increase the US budget deficit and counterpart efforts from the Government Ministry.
“I have been disappointed to see the bill for mass expenditure, which increases the budget deficit, not only decreases and undermines the work that the Doge team does,” said the technological billionaire and Trump Donor “CBS Sunday morning.” “I think that a bill can be great or it can be beautiful,, But I don’t know if it may be both.
Trump’s “big and beautiful bill” includes billions of dollars in tax discounts and a big boost to the American army and national security spending – widely paid by revision to federal health and nutrition programs and reduction of energy programs. The Non -Savory Congress Budget Office estimates that the bill would stack 3.8 double dollars to the deficit. He narrowly exceeded the house last week and now headed for the Senate, Where he will probably be faced with many changes.
Musk’s comments are involved in the middle of a media tour before a SpaceX test flight Tuesday evening. Musk is moving away from the work of the government full time to focus on its companies, including SpaceX and Tesla, who have partially had in part following the Musk alliance with the Trump administration.
He noted this decision in an interview with Ars Technica Tuesday, hours before SpaceX starship Test flight.
“I think I have probably spent a little too much time on politics, it is less than people think it, because the media will over-represent political things, because the political compression bones receive a lot of traction in the media”, “ He said when he was asked if he felt his concentration on politics in the past year had “injured” SpaceX. “It is not as if I had left companies. It was just a relative time allowance which was probably a little too high on the government side, and I reduced it significantly in recent weeks.”
Musk also noted last week that he would spend “much less“Money on politics in the future, but it is still not clear if the remarks indicate a change in its commitment to $ 100 million in political groups controlled by the president. Musk previously spent more than $ 290 million to help spend more than $ 20 million over a year in the Wisconsin court court on the Wisconsin courtyard.
Musk also continued to defend the work that Doge did in Washington, saying to Washington Post On Tuesday, the team became a “whipped boy”.
“Doge is just becoming the whisk for everything,” he said. “So, as something bad would happen anywhere, and we will be blamed even if we had nothing to do with it.”
CNN previously reported that Doge is about to continue his work Even when Musk is backing up, staff members to stay in place, integrated into federal agencies, For months or years to come.
Hadas Gold of CNN has contributed to this report.