Elon Musk says Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is an ‘outrageous, pork-filled’ abomination

Elon Musk ramped up his rhetoric on social media against the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on Tuesday hours after Donald Trump ripped a Republican senator who opposes the president’s budget plan.

Musk, who offered milder criticism of the bill last week, upped the ante in a Tuesday afternoon tweet.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk tweeted.

“Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

Musk, the Tesla CEO and world’s richest person, ended his tenure Friday as a special government employee overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency.

Last week, Musk was quoted as being “disappointed” by Trump’s bill.

“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk told CBS News in an interview.

DOGE aimed to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget before amending to more modest goal of $150 billion.

“The current DOGE results put Musk’s efforts well short of President Bill Clinton’s initiative to streamline the federal bureaucracy, which saved the equivalent of $240 billion by the time his second term ended,” the Associated Press reported Friday. “Clinton’s effort reduced the federal workforce by more than 400,000 employees. According to government estimates, the total civilian federal workforce — not counting military personnel or postal workers — reaches 2.4 million people.”

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed the House last month by a single vote.

Musk’s tweet was posted hours after Trump slammed Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for his opposition to the bill, which appears doomed in the Senate.

“Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting ‘NO’ on everything, he thinks it’s good politics, but it’s not,” the president posted to his Truth Social account. “The BBB is a big WINNER!!!”

Trump then claimed Paul has “crazy” ideas and is defiant without offering substantial ways to solve problems.

“Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.