“I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
So declared Elon Musk during a recent appearance on CBS, as widely reported by multiple media outlets.
Musk was referring specifically to the “big, beautiful bill” that has incurred increasing controversy from Democrats and Republicans alike … given the fact that the bill will add an estimated $4T to the national debt.
And, as it turns out, Musk’s words were apparently the spark necessary to spark a slew of criticism from multiple other conservatives – including, rather surprisingly, some of the most well-known MAGA loyalists.
As reported by The Hill, several conservatives, who normally see eye to eye with President Donald Trump on other matters, have developed a distinctly different approach to the “big, beautiful bill” and the big, un-beautiful trillions it will add to already unsustainable national debt.
“@elonmusk took massive incoming – including attacks on his companies as well as personal smears – to lead the effort on @DOGE. He became public enemy #1 of legacy media around the world. To see Republicans in Congress cast aside any meaningful spending reductions (and, in fact, fully fund things like USAID) is demoralizing and represents a betrayal of the voters who elected them,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared on X.
DeSantis’s declaration is worthwhile to note, given that the strong MAGA ally has largely agreed with Trump on most other matters.
And DeSantis is hardly the only high-profile conservative unafraid to speak out.
“@ElonMusk is right. The House’s version of the One Big Beautiful Bill would explode the debt by $4 trillion, undermining all the cuts @DOGE has made. There’s nothing beautiful about that,” Kentucky Senator Rand Paul asserted on X.
Paul is famous for his highly public opposition to Dr. Antony Fauci and his draconian COVID policies, and he has also strongly supported Trump on numerous occasions.
That said, Paul also has his eyes firmly on the future, recognizing that adding multiple trillions to the national debt is not what most voters had in mind.
Which Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin clearly recognizes.
“Have you been watching what the bond markets are doing in relation to the one big, beautiful bill? They’re not thinking it’s a very big, beautiful bill … Everybody likes a tax cut, but when you’re $37 trillion in debt on the path to over $60 trillion in debt, right when the Social Security trust fund is running out, somebody’s got to be the dad that says, ‘I know everybody wants to go to Disney World, but we just can’t afford it,” Johnson remarked to reporters.
Excellent point, depicted in an excellent, highly realistic analogy.
However, perhaps the most surprising commentary came from none other than Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“I was just told that we are going to see the first DOGE cuts bill on Monday. Foreign aid and NPR/CPB on the chopping block. I have not seen the bill yet, but I’m just passing on what they told me. Personally I want to pass DOGE cuts every single week until the bloated out of control government is reigned back in. As a country, we cannot survive our national debt and honestly, we may be past the point of return. We should be aggressively attacking our debt and aggressively, cutting all waste fraud, and abuse and unnecessary programs. Our future literally is in peril,” Greene proclaimed on X.
Without a doubt …
Collectively, the remarks of DeSantis, Paul, Johnson, and Green are quite compelling to consider … especially as they directly align with the sentiments expressed by Musk.
On the flip side, if Trump is irritated by Musk’s public commentary on his “big, beautiful bill,” he surely is not demonstrating such irritation in public.
Indeed, though Musk’s “official last day” as the head of DOGE recently ended, Trump has made it clear that Musk will remain an enduring presence in his administration in one way or another.
Thereby suggesting differences of opinion are not irreparable dealbreakers between the two titans.
“This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way. Elon is terrific!” Trump declared.
And, on that note, perhaps both will come to see eye to eye on a (hopefully) revised “bigger” and “more beautiful” bill.
Author: Jane Jones
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