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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good evening from New York. I'm Antonia Hilton. I'm in for Chris Hayes tonight. |
0:08.5 | Elon Musk, the unelected billionaire who left the White House just last week, is now whipping |
0:13.2 | votes against Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill. |
0:17.4 | Take a look at the tweet, which I'm told we do have Freddie here from Elon Musk, who says, |
0:22.7 | I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. |
0:24.8 | This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. |
0:30.0 | Shame on those who voted for it. |
0:31.9 | You know you did wrong. |
0:33.4 | You know it. |
0:34.8 | In a follow-up post, Musk added this, quote, |
0:37.7 | In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people. |
0:43.5 | Now, contrast that with the much more diplomatic tone Musk had just a few days ago. |
0:50.1 | I'm a little stuck in a bind where I'm like, well, I don't want to, you know, speak out against the administration, but I don't want to, I also don't want to take responsibility for everything the administration is doing. |
1:04.2 | But then on Sunday, something changed. Trump pulled the nomination of Musk's close collaborator and to be NASA administrator, |
1:13.1 | a billionaire named Jared Isaacman. |
1:15.7 | And so now the bill is a, quote, disgusting abomination. |
1:19.2 | But Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson disagrees with Musk. |
1:23.2 | It's very disappointed, okay? |
1:25.2 | I've come to consider Elon a good friend. But with all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big beautiful bill. |
1:33.7 | We had a long conversation yesterday. He and I spoke for I think more than 20 minutes on the telephone, and I stole all the virtues of the bill. |
1:40.9 | He seemed to understand that. We had a very friendly conversation about it, |
1:44.6 | but for him to come out and hand the whole bill is to be just very disappointing, very surprising |
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