Trump supporters defend 'Big Beautiful Bill' against Musk's criticism, shrug off debt concerns

Americans successful Republican strongholds were supportive of the "Big Beautiful Bill," contempt expressing concerns astir adding to the nationalist debt, successful interviews with Fox News Digital connected Wednesday.

The sweeping taxation and spending cuts package, passed by House lawmakers successful May and backed by President Donald Trump, addresses galore of the president’s legislative priorities connected cutting taxes, boosting borderline security, American energy, defence and production, and rolling backmost immoderate of erstwhile President Joe Biden’s biology regulations and taxation credits.

The White House has hailed the legislation arsenic delivering "the largest taxation chopped successful American history." However, the measure has faced disapproval from erstwhile Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caput Elon Musk, who claims it "undermines" each the enactment his DOGE squad was doing.

"This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending measure is simply a disgusting abomination," Musk wrote successful a station to X connected Tuesday. "Shame connected those who voted for it: you cognize you did wrong. You cognize it."

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Former DOGE caput Elon Musk has been an outspoken professional of the Republican spending and taxation chopped bill. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The measure, if signed into law, would apt adjacent further substance the nation's monolithic fund deficit. The nationalist indebtedness presently sits astatine $36.2 trillion and counting, according to Fox Business' National Debt Tracker. 

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected the bill would chopped taxes by $3.7 trillion portion adding $2.4 trillion to the nationalist debt.

Fox News Digital sought retired Americans from communities that helped Trump triumph the 2024 predetermination to spot what they thought astir Musk's disapproval of the bill and if they'd enactment the legislation, adjacent if it accrued the nationalist debt.

In Warren County, Virginia, wherever Trump won by 37 points, a Trump protagonist named John said helium was supportive of the measure and wasn't disquieted astir expanding the indebtedness for a clip due to the fact that helium believed that Trump's efforts to bring "hundreds of thousands" of jobs backmost to America would bring successful much gross and wage down the debt.

"These radical are not existent smart," helium said of the bill's critics. 

John said helium likes Musk but disagrees with his instrumentality connected the "Big Beautiful Bill."

"He shouldn't accidental thing astir the measure due to the fact that it's amended than nary bill," helium added.

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The White House launched a website wherever Americans tin tabulate however overmuch the "Big Beautiful Bill" volition personally prevention them if lawmakers walk the sweeping legislation. (Getty Images)

In Cypress, Texas, a assemblage extracurricular Houston that gave Trump a double-digit vantage implicit erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris successful 2024, locals were supportive of the bill, though they did not hold with everything successful it.

"It's astir apt not the cleanable bill, but it's a start," a antheral named Chad said. "It's a measurement successful the close direction, getting america wherever we request to be."

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Another man, Chris, said helium was "frustrated" by the authorities due to the fact that helium supported a batch of the policies that were successful it, but helium besides wanted to spot DOGE preserved. 

Keith, besides from Cypress, said Musk was entitled to his opinion, but helium didn't deliberation the measure should get scrapped conscionable due to the fact that it whitethorn person immoderate "bad things stuck successful with the good."

"We person an imperfect system, but it's the champion 1 successful the world," helium added.

All 3 men were skeptical astir economists' predictions that the measure would adhd trillions to the nationalist debt.

"Economists are close little often than the weatherman," Chris joked. 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is signaling that changes are apt to the House's mentation of President Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill. (Getty Images)

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In South Florida, Trump protagonist Franceen said she approved of the president's propulsion to get the measure passed and was leery of media reports astir the fiscal cost.

"They marque up accusation and archer lies, thing to get astatine President Trump, truthful I thin to beryllium precise skeptical astir things I perceive and work successful the mainstream media," she told Fox News Digital.

Over successful reddish Staten Island, New York, Trump supporters besides came retired to backmost the bill, saying immoderate fiscal outgo would beryllium worthy it successful the end.

"I deliberation the benefits of the Big Beautiful Bill volition outweigh immoderate negativity," 1 antheral said.

"Overall, everything he's going to beryllium doing is going to instrumentality america to a amended place," different Trump protagonist said.

Others dismissed Republicans and independents who've travel retired against it.

"He's the commander-in-chief," 1 antheral said. "Where bash you get disconnected telling the commander-in-chief what to do?" 

In Lapeer County, Michigan, wherever voters overwhelmingly supported Trump successful the 2024 election, residents said they were acrophobic astir the rising nationalist debt, but were besides wary of those criticizing it.

"I don't judge that's true," Joe said of economical predictions. "I judge that's conscionable to crook radical against Trump."

Trump supporters told Fox News Digital they enactment his "Big Beautiful Bill." (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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The authorities is present headed to the Senate. Trump is urging the enclosure to enactment arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable to get the measure to his table earlier July 4.

Those who spoke to Fox News Digital said lawmakers shouldn't interest astir unit from Trump oregon anyone other and should deliberation of doing what's champion for the American people.

"I deliberation lawmakers should halt worrying astir getting re-elected and bash what's champion for the radical close present erstwhile they person the chance," Franceen said. "This is astir apt the 1 accidental for the state to get backmost connected way and close itself from the egregious messiness that's antecedently been created. I bash consciousness similar it's a spot of a present oregon ne'er thing."

Fox Business' Anders Hagstrom and Eric Revell contributed to this report.