Elon Musk criticism of Trump tax bill frustrates some Republicans: 'No place in Congress'

Elon Musk’s disapproval of House Republicans’ "big, beauteous bill" has near immoderate GOP lawmakers frustrated astatine the tech billionaire.

"This is wherefore Mr. Musk has nary place in Congress," 1 House GOP lawmaker, granted anonymity to talk freely, told Fox News Digital. "He wants to codify discretionary cuts. He didn't find capable waste, fraud, and maltreatment to money [the Small Business Administration], fto unsocial trim our debt." 

"This was a gimmick. He got used. He's present upset. He played the game, helium got what helium wanted, past helium ended up similar everyone other who gets excessively close."

House Republicans passed a broad-ranging measure past week advancing President Donald Trump's docket connected tax, immigration, defense, and energy. Congressional Republicans are hoping to walk it via the fund reconciliation process, a mechanics for passing fiscal authorities portion waiving the Senate’s 60-vote threshold and sidelining the number party.

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Elon Musk criticized President Donald Trump's "big, beauteous bill." (AP)

Musk told "CBS Sunday Morning" the authorities "undermines the work" done by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

He called it a "massive spending bill" that "increases the fund deficit."

However, Republican supporters of the measure person contended that the benignant of spending cuts Musk is looking for, and the benignant DOGE outlined, cannot beryllium done via the reconciliation process. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., himself pledged successful a nationalist connection aft Musk's comments that House Republicans would tackle DOGE cuts – albeit successful a antithetic conveyance than the "big, beauteous bill."

Reconciliation chiefly deals with mandatory authorities backing that Congress indispensable alteration by amending the instrumentality itself, similar national information nett programs.

The White House is besides readying to nonstop a bundle of projected spending cuts to Congress adjacent week, including cuts outlined by DOGE, that people discretionary authorities spending. Discretionary spending refers to the currency flows that Congress controls annually via the fund appropriations process.

Other supporters of the bill, similar Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said its absorption was connected radical extracurricular of Musk’s wealthiness class.

"The measure strikes the due equilibrium betwixt rooting retired fraud to execute savings and not impacting citizens who trust connected authorities programs. The biggest winners for a alteration are not billionaires similar Musk but middle-class families who volition spot the bulk of savings returned to them successful the signifier of existent taxation relief," Malliotakis told Fox News Digital.

"That’s who President Trump and House Republicans acceptable retired to help."

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said the authorities was aimed astatine helping mediate and working-class families. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

A 2nd House Republican who requested anonymity to talk freely told Fox News Digital that Musk did "put a batch of enactment in" with DOGE but argued helium was incorrect connected the facts.

"I mean, it wouldn't beryllium the archetypal clip that helium didn't truly person a grip connected the process," the House Republican said. "So, you know, we truly person to cook the DOGE cuts into the fund alternatively than done reconciliation."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House and Musk for remark via Tesla but did not instantly perceive back.

On the different broadside of the House GOP Conference, fiscal hawks who besides had issues with the authorities rallied astir Musk’s comments.

"I stock Mr. Musk's concerns astir the short-term adverse effect connected the national shortage of the constricted spending reductions successful the BBB. Debt markets stay acrophobic astir US full indebtedness and yearly deficits," said House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md.

The Maryland Republican voted "present" connected the reconciliation measure past week.

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House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris said helium shared Elon Musk's concerns. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Hopefully the Senate volition instrumentality those concerns into information arsenic the legislative process moves forward," Harris said.

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Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, the lone House Republican to ballot against the bill, posted connected X, "Hopefully, the Senate volition win wherever the House missed the moment. Don't anticipation idiosyncratic other volition chopped spending someday, cognize it has been done this Congress."

"Despite pleas to measurement backmost and look astatine the sum of the parts passed by 11 antithetic committees, this measure was rushed to the level erstwhile it should person been fixed," Davidson said.

Musk announced precocious connected Wednesday that helium was stepping distant from his national authorities relation due to the fact that his "scheduled clip arsenic a Special Government Employee" was coming "to an end."