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Musk ‘Disappointed’ That ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Didn’t Contain DOGE Cuts

Charlie Kirk Staff

05/28/2025

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Musk ‘Disappointed’ That ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Didn’t Contain DOGE Cuts

Elon Musk says he was “disappointed” by the version of President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that cleared the GOP-led House last week.

In an upcoming interview for CBS Sunday Morning, set to air in full this weekend, Musk voiced concerns that the bill could further balloon the federal deficit, which has already soared past $1 trillion in recent years. His comments come as the Republican-controlled Senate prepares to take up the sweeping legislation.

“I was like — disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it. And it undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk said.

At the outset of his second term, President Trump tapped Elon Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, aimed at rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government.

Although Musk announced last month that he is “significantly” scaling back his involvement with DOGE to concentrate on his private ventures, the initiative’s website claims “estimated savings” have already reached $175 billion. The impressive figure has prompted some Republican lawmakers to call on Congress to formally codify the “DOGE cuts” into law.

In the CBS clip, “Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue informed Musk that when the bill arrived, he believed that everything achieved by DOGE would be “wiped out” within the first year.

He then cut to Musk, who said, “I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.”

The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is designed to advance President Trump’s key priorities on border security, energy independence, and national defense. It also proposes extending the 2017 tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year, raising the debt ceiling by several trillion dollars, and enacting a wide range of additional policy measures.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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