Elon Musk calls Donald Trump’s tax law “disgusting”

A few days after retiring as a consultant of US President Donald Trump, the technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has had massive criticism of the Republican’s budget plans. The draft law, which is currently for advice on the US Senate, was “outrageous” and “disgusting”, wrote Musk on Tuesday in his online service X. Musk had not commented on Trump for years.

The multi -billionaire and head of the Tesla and SpaceX company literally said that the household law of the congress was a “hideousness” and “filled with pork”. This means gifts to voters in American English.

With the package, it is planned to permanently extend tax relief from Trump’s first term. This should be counter -financed, for example, by cuts in social benefits – which is due to the Democrats of sharp resistance.

In his criticism, the tech billionaire received support from the independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who is usually correct with the Democrats: “Musk is right,” he also wrote to X. Sanders that the richest Americans would get $ 664 million in tax relief and at the same time removed $ 290 million in the care of needs.

The spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, reacted coolly to the entrepreneur’s new criticism. “The president knows the attitude of Elon Musk to this law,” she said. Trump will still adhere to his “large, beautiful law”. The president officially baptized his draft “Big Beautiful Bill”. Trump urges the Senate to say goodbye to the Republicans regardless of concerns.

In May, the project made it as the first Congress Chamber in May. In the Senate, however, several members of Trump’s Republican Party block themselves. They interfere with the planned raising of the debt upper limit and want higher spending cuts.

Musk had already “disappointed” about the bill in an interview at the end of May. The multimilliarist criticized that the US state debt is further bloated. This destroys his mission to save huge sums in bureaucracy for Trump. A day later, Musk confirmed his withdrawal from the consultant post.

Musk donated more than $ 250 million for Trump’s election campaign and at times became a close confidante of the president. When withdrawing from Washington, he referred to the rule that contracts of external government employees were limited to 130 days a year. However, there had already been evidence of a weakened influence of Musk in Trump’s environment in recent months.