FLASHBACK: Musk accused Trump, GOP leaders of not wanting to cut spending — here's where they said they would

Elon Musk’s fiery feud with President Donald Trump spilled onto the apical Republicans successful Congress, wherever the tech billionaire questioned if their zeal to chopped spending had disappeared. 

Musk launched into a societal media battle this week against Trump’s "big, beauteous bill," and accused Republicans of crafting a "disgusting abomination" afloat of wasteful spending. 

What started arsenic a rant against the measure turned into pointed attacks against Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. 

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., left, is signaling that immoderate changes are apt to the House's mentation of President Donald Trump's "big, beauteous bill." (Getty Images)

The tech billionaire and erstwhile caput of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) lamented the measure arsenic not cutting heavy capable into Washington’s spending addiction. The House GOP’s offering, which is present being modified successful the Senate, acceptable a extremity of $1.5 trillion successful spending cuts. 

Musk acceptable a benchmark of uncovering $2 trillion successful waste, fraud and maltreatment to slash with his DOGE initiative, but fell acold short, hitting lone $160 cardinal successful his four-month stint arsenic a peculiar authorities employee. 

ELON MUSK WARPATH AGAINST TRUMP'S 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL' RATTLES HOUSE GOP

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and tech billionaire Elon Musk. (AP)

Still, helium came with receipts, questioning whether Trump, Thune and Johnson were really committed to making heavy cuts. 

Below are moments from the run way and caller months compiled by Fox News Digital wherever the trio affirmed their committedness to putting a dent successful the nation’s nearly $37 trillion debt. 

Trump connected the way successful 2024: 'We volition halt wasteful spending'

A communal taxable for Trump during his 2024 statesmanlike run was to spell aft the Biden administration, and his opponent, erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris, for "throwing billions of dollars retired the window." 

The then-presidential campaigner vowed that should helium triumph a 2nd term, his incoming medication would halt wasteful spending. 

"We volition halt wasteful spending and large authorities peculiar involvement giveaways, and yet basal up for the American taxpayer, which hasn't happened since I was president," helium said. "We stood up. Our current monolithic deficits volition beryllium reduced to practically nothing. Our state volition beryllium powered by growth. Our country, volition beryllium powered by growth, volition wage disconnected our debt, volition person each this income coming in."

GOP SENATORS EXPRESS 'CONCERNS,' 'SKEPTICISM' OVER TRUMP'S SPENDING BILL AFTER MUSK RANT

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is person of a 53-seat Republican bulk successful the Senate and faces concerns from immoderate GOP colleagues astir the size of the fund plan. (Reuters)

Thune renews committedness to chopped spending with Trump's 'big, beauteous bill': 'It does everything we acceptable retired to do'

Thune has agreed with his colleagues successful the House GOP that the taxation chopped bundle needs to execute steep savings, and believes that the Senate GOP could instrumentality those cuts a measurement further. After the measure precocious from the House past month, the apical Senate Republican re-upped his vow to slash national funding. 

"It does everything that we acceptable retired to do. It modernizes our military, secures our border, extends taxation alleviation and makes imperishable taxation alleviation that volition pb to economical maturation and amended jobs successful this country, and makes America vigor dominant, coupled with the biggest spending simplification successful American history," helium said. "So those are our docket items, and that's what we campaigned on. That's what we're going to do."

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said helium was "surprised" by Elon Musk's disapproval of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (Associated Press)

Johnson aft the House's transition of the fund plan: 'What you're going to see is simply a continuing taxable of america identifying waste, fraud and maltreatment successful government'

Johnson had to onslaught a balancing enactment successful the House to cobble unneurotic capable enactment down the legislation, and struck deals and satisfied acrophobic lawmakers crossed the spectrum of the House GOP portion inactive mounting a extremity of $1.5 trillion successful spending cuts. Rooting retired waste, fraud and maltreatment has been a continued mantra of the talker and his allies. 

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"I said this is the opening of a process, and what you're going to spot is simply a continuing taxable of america identifying waste, fraud and maltreatment successful government, which is our pledge of communal sense, restoring communal consciousness and fiscal sanity," Johnson said.