Musk calls Trump-backed tax bill a 'disgusting abomination'

Elon Musk has criticised US President Donald Trump's taxation and spending bill, calling it "outrageous" and a "disgusting abomination".

The bill, which includes multi-trillion-dollar taxation breaks, was passed by the House Republicans successful May, and has been described by the president arsenic a "big, beauteous bill".

The tech billionaire deed retired astatine the taxation cuts connected his level X, writing: "This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending measure is simply a disgusting abomination.

"Shame connected those who voted for it: you cognize you did wrong. You cognize it."

In American politics, "pork" is simply a governmental metaphor utilized erstwhile authorities spending is allocated to section projects, usually to payment politicians' constituencies.

Musk near the administration abruptly past week aft moving to chopped costs with his team, the recently formed Department of Government Efficiency - known arsenic DOGE - with the ambition of sacking national workers and cutting reddish tape.

The White House brushed Musk's comments aside, claiming they did not astonishment the president.

In a property league connected Tuesday, property caput Karoline Leavitt said that "the president already knows wherever Elon Musk stood connected this bill".

She added: "This is one, big, beauteous bill.

"And he's sticking to it."