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This This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Donald Trump has been ranting wildly and angrily over the last 24 hours about his big, beautiful bill.

It's past the House, but Trump seems to fear it might not get through the Senate.

He lashed out furiously at Senator Rand Paul over

this, revealing his own uncertainty about where this is all going. But then Elon Musk threw a

grenade into the proceedings, unleashing a pair of tweets that ripped the bill as an abomination

that will explode the deficit by trillions of dollars. The funny thing about this is that

Musk was being dishonest in his own way, but he still wrecked the scam that Trump and Mike

Johnson have carefully concocted to sell this bill, which will create a lot of problems for them

in the GOP. Today we're talking about all this with Alex Shepard, senior editor at the New Republic,

and author of a new piece arguing that the damage Musk has done is only beginning. Good to

have you on, Alex. It's great to be back. So let's start with what Elon Musk did. He tweeted on

Tuesday that, quote, this massive outrageous pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.

It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion.

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