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Bulwark Takes

Elon Disses Trump's Big Beautiful Bill

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Sommer react to Elon Musk dissing the GOP's big spending bill.

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under the bulwark. I'm here with Will Sommer, who is the author of our False Salic

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Newsletter, which you should be subscribing to. We are doing this late night Tuesday. It's like

0:31.1

almost 9.50. Thanks to Sebastian, our producer for doing this. Editing is late at night.

0:37.3

But we had some really interesting video that just popped by Elon Musk taking a Sebastian, our producer for doing this, edited in his late at night.

0:44.6

But we had some really interesting video that just popped by Elon Musk taking a big dump on the big, beautiful bill, which is not something you normally see from Top White House advisor regarding the president's most important piece of domestic legislation.

0:51.7

We're going to get into that.

0:52.9

But before we do, subscribe to the feed. We appreciate it. All right. Well, let me set up for you and then you just

0:57.9

sort of take a swing in it. Elon, who is kind of like in his, I don't know, last chapter of

1:03.8

this version of politics is doing a few interviews as he gets more involved or back involved,

1:10.8

I should say, in SpaceX and his other

1:12.4

private ventures. And he's pretty open about how bitter he feels about how Doge went and how upset he is

1:19.9

with the end product, which itself is notable because that was such an important administration

1:25.0

initiative. But then he was asked about Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill, which is a sort of grouping of tax cut extensions, Medicaid and snap cuts, and other Republican domestic parties.

1:36.9

This is like literally the only bill that Republicans are working on.

1:39.6

They stuffed it all together.

1:41.1

It just passed the House.

1:42.3

The House sent it to the Senate.

1:43.8

They're trying

1:44.2

to build momentum for this thing. And then Elon Musk says this to CBS Sunday morning.

1:50.4

So, you know, I was like disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases

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