Welcome, everybody, to the Jim Acosta show. It is Wednesday, and apparently Elon Musk is just now becoming aware of the fact that Donald Trump is not serious about reducing the deficit.

Thanks for joining me this afternoon. As you can see, the governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, is with us. He's my guest to start off the show.

I've got a great show today, great lineup today. TV legend Katie

Kirk is going to be coming on in just a few moments from now. And Texas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett,

who was also a rising star in the Democratic Party like Governor Polis. She's going to be joining me

as well. So a lot of stuff to get through some great voices here. And Governor Polis,

thanks so much for doing this. Really appreciate it. Jim, great to see you and great to be on the show.

And this is your first substack. Is that right? Am I? It is. I had to learn how to set up an account

and do all this. I've never done this before. So I'm excited to be here. It's exciting to be here, and you'll see there are lots of folks chiming in

and making comments and so on, and I find that often the questions that are being asked in the

comments are better than the questions that I came up with. So that is often very helpful. But

Governor, great to see this. Let's just jump right into this because I thought it was fascinating.

I know you've got some comments and concerns about the big, beautiful bill that Trump and

the Republicans are trying to push through the Congress.

But interesting that the New York Times is reporting that Elon Musk is criticizing that bill

to enact Trump's agenda, saying it would undermine the administration's own efforts to shrink

federal spending,

I guess efforts that he allegedly led as part of Doge.

And he said to CBS, I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly,

which increases the budget deficit, not decreases it.

I mean, he should know that when Trump was in office the first time around,

he added $8 trillion to the national debt.

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