Elon Musk dropped a rhetorical bomb on President Trump’s plans to pass a massive budget bill on Tuesday.

Musk, the world’s richest man, excoriated legislation that Trump calls big and beautiful as “a disgusting abomination.”

He also called the legislation “outrageous” and “pork-filled.” Referring to members of the House who had passed the bill and sent it along to the Senate, Musk added, “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

The remarks were all the more striking for coming just days after Musk departed from his role with the quasi-official Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). His departure was marked by a joint appearance with Trump in the Oval Office, at which they paid tribute to one another.

Musk had expressed misgivings about the spending legislation in an interview broadcast on “CBS Sunday Morning” this past weekend, musing that while such a bill could indeed be either big or beautiful, “I don’t know if it can be both.”

GOP leaders on Capitol Hill thought they had been able to assuage Musk’s concerns. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters on Tuesday that he had spoken to Musk for 20 minutes the previous day.

Johnson, who had to go through arduous efforts to get the bill passed in the House, said that in his Monday conversation, “I extolled all the virtues of the bill, and he........

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