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🗓️ 4 June 2025
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Let's talk about Elon vs Trump_ Budget edition....
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0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
0:05.0 | So today, we're going to talk about Elon versus Trump, budget edition. |
0:11.0 | We just talked about how Elon gave an interview in which he said he didn't want to talk about the presidency, and then talked about the presidency. |
0:20.0 | Apparently, he wasn't done undermining Trump's |
0:23.5 | agenda. Elon took to his social media site to post quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it |
0:31.5 | anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who |
0:40.2 | voted for it. You know you did wrong. You know it. Elon is talking about the one big, beautiful |
0:47.5 | bill. This is the budget reconciliation package that formalizes basically the entire Trump agenda. Trump and the Republican |
0:56.5 | party as a whole have put a massive amount of political capital into seeing this package move forward. |
1:03.7 | They gave up on Trump's first 100 days. They delayed legislation they could have passed. |
1:10.0 | They exposed fault lines within their own party. |
1:13.5 | And they broadcast openly to the working class that they'll take away their social safety nets to give the wealthier Americans a tax break. |
1:23.5 | Now, Elon is openly attacking it. |
1:26.9 | The initial post, calling it a disgusting abomination, apparently wasn't enough to make his position clear. |
1:34.2 | So he followed it up with another post, saying the package, quote, |
1:39.2 | will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to 2.5 trillion, and burden |
1:47.6 | America's citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt. |
1:52.5 | So, for the people asking about whether it'll reduce the deficit, you now have Elon Musk |
1:58.8 | flatly saying it won't. If it adds to the deficit, it adds to the debt. |
2:04.7 | That apparently still wasn't enough to make his position clear. And he posted, quote, |
2:11.3 | Congress is making America bankrupt. Republicans seem weirdly taken off guard by the broad side against the Trump agenda, |
2:20.6 | even though this might be the most consistent position Elon has ever had. Speaker Johnson seems to be |
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