President Trump on Wednesday responded to Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk’s disappointment with the One Big Beautiful Bill act, which passed in the House last week and is now being negotiated in the Senate.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Musk said he was “disappointed” in the Big Beautiful Bill in a recent interview, saying it “undermines the work the DOGE team is doing.”
“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,” Musk said.
However, the bill, while expected to cost $1.4 trillion, will extend 2017 tax cuts, eliminate federal taxes on tips, overtime pay, and interest from loans on American-made cars.
Among its other provisions are a $1,000 tax-free “MAGA Savings Account” for every newborn, raising the child tax credit to $2,500 until 2028, and the addition of work requirements to Medicaid starting in 2026.
Still several Senators have voiced concerns over the bill and vowed not to vote for it, citing concerns about the deficit.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said the One Big Beautiful Bill does not have the votes to pass the Senate on Sunday.
Proponents of the bill argue that as a reconciliation bill, it is only allowed to cut mandatory spending, not discretionary spending, which makes up the bulk of proposed DOGE cuts.
President Trump responded to criticisms in the Oval Office earlier, highlighting the “beautiful” parts of the bill, including expanding his 2017 tax cuts, which are set to expire in September. He noted that the Senate is still negotiating and will likely make some changes to the bill, sending an amended version back to the House of Representatives.
“Remember, we have zero Democrat votes because they’re bad people. There’s something wrong with them,” he said. “we have to get almost all Republican votes, and I think we’re very close to doing that. I think it’ll be very successful.”
Watch:
Reporter: Elon Musk, in a television interview, criticized the One Big Beautiful Bill, saying he was disappointed it didn’t cut enough, essentially, that it undercut the DOGE efforts. What’s your reaction to that?
Trump: Well, my reaction’s a lot of things. Number one, we have to get a lot of votes. We can’t be cutting, you know— we need to get a lot of support, and we have a lot of support. We had to get it through the House. The House was— we have no Democrats. You know, if it’s up to the Democrats, they’ll take the 65% increase. You know, if that doesn’t get approved, this country is going to have a 65% increase in taxes and lots of other problems, big problems, almost bigger than that, but we’ll have a 65% increase, as opposed to the largest tax cut in the history of our country.
We will be negotiating that bill, and I’m not happy about certain aspects of it, but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it. That’s the way they go. It’s very big; it’s the big, beautiful bill. But the beautiful is because of all of the things we have, the biggest thing being, I would say, the level of tax cutting that we’re going to be doing. We’re going to make people really be able to— we’ll have one of the lowest tax rates we’ve ever had in the history of our country, and tremendous amounts of benefit are going to the middle income people of our country, low and middle income people of our country. So, we’re going to see what happens because the Senate, as you know, is negotiating with us, and they have to then go back to the House, and you know, it’s got a way to go, but I have to say Speaker Johnson and Thune have done an incredible job. John Thune has done a fantastic job, and they’re working together with me and others. And I think we have an amazing— if we pull this off, remember, we have zero Democrat votes because they’re bad people. There’s something wrong with them.
You know, they’ll let people pour into our country. The single biggest problem is we had 21 million people pour into our country, probably higher than that, and they’re people that weren’t supposed to be here, and many of those people are bad, murderers, drug dealers, the mentally insane. They were closing mental institutions all over the world, not South America, all over the world. They’re coming into our country, and we’re getting them out, but we’re having a hard time because some judges aren’t making it very easy for us, and it’s tough enough. They approved that; they allowed that to happen to our country. We don’t have one democrat vote. And if I were a Democrat, I’d be voting for this bill, and I’d get elected to any position I want as a Democrat. They’re crazy. They’re voting for a 65% tax increase, and they’re only doing it for hatred. They’re not doing it for any reason. They know it’s terrible, terrible politics, in my opinion, but so we have no Democrat votes. That means we have to get almost all Republican votes, and I think we’re very close to doing that. I think it’ll be very successful.
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