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Elon Musk Trashes Trump’s Budget!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Longwell breaks down the dramatic breakup between Elon Musk and Donald Trump and how this clash could fracture the MAGA coalition and reshape Republican politics.

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0:00.0

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0:01.9

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0:24.7

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0:23.6

video.

0:24.6

They said Tim and Joe and Sam, they already cut an Elon video, but come on.

0:29.6

No way I'm sitting this action out because I've got more takes.

0:33.6

And also because this is, because Elon's always tweeting through it, this is a rapidly

0:38.4

evolving situation. Let me just read you what he has done so far in chronological order. Okay, so

0:45.5

he starts out a couple hours ago and he says, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.

0:50.7

This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.

0:55.8

Shame on those who voted for it. You know you did wrong. You know it. Do you know who voted for this bill?

1:03.5

All the Republicans in Congress, except for Massey. Okay. So he is condemning right now every congressional Republican who voted for Trump's

1:13.5

big, beautiful bill. He then goes on to say, it will massively increase the already gigantic budget

1:20.6

deficit to 2.5 trillion, three exclamation points, and burdened American citizens with crushingly

1:26.6

unsustainable debt. Guess what? He's right.

1:31.0

Elon's right. This bill is ridiculous. It is too big. It is cutting Medicaid for lower income people

1:39.9

in order to give a massive tax cut to higher income people, to billionaires and millionaires.

1:45.2

And guess what? I love tax cuts. I've always liked tax cuts. But this bill is absurd and it does

1:51.2

nothing. It adds like $20 trillion to the debt over 10 years. It is unsustainable. It is crushing.

1:59.7

It would put us close to $60 trillion in debt at a time when

2:04.8

inflation is high and we are paying more to service the interest on the debt than we are on

2:12.4

programs that help the American people. This is not America first. And Elon is correct about this. Now, he was wrong

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