The legislation combines more than $4 trillion in tax cuts and new spending with less than $2 trillion in cuts to federal food and health programs, for a net deficit of more than $2 trillion. Musk has called the bill a “disgusting abomination” and said Congress should kill it because of its deficit impact.

House Republicans are caught on the back foot as Elon Musk continues his tirade against President Donald Trump's reconciliation bill.

Elon Musk has blasted President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts as a “disgusting abomination."