By Molly Claire Goddard
3:06am PDT, May 29, 2025
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Elon Musk appears to be distancing himself from
Donald Trump.
During an interview with
CBS Sunday Morning, the former Department of Government Efficiency specialist admitted he was not a fan of the president's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that House Republicans passed last week after being Trump's most prominent supporter since he returned to the White House.
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After Elon Musk took a step back from his
DOGE job, he revealed he was not thrilled with the Donald Trump-supported legislation.
"I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing," the tech mogul said in the interview. "I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful. But I don't know if it can be both. [That's] my personal opinion."
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Donald Trump has been the biggest advocate for the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," which still needs to pass the Senate.
The bill would impose work requirements on Medicaid, amp up border security spending, cut clean energy tax credits and prolong the Republican leader's 2017 tax cuts.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the legislation would increase the national deficit by $3.8 trillion by 2034.
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Despite Elon Musk and Donald Trump's once close friendship and their work together firing thousands of people from their government jobs, insiders claim the former star of
The Apprentice is keeping the billionaire at a distance due to his new lack of popularity.
"He's finished, done, gone. He polls terribly. People hate him," a source told
Politico. "He'd go to
Wisconsin thinking he can buy people's votes, wear the cheese hat, act like a 9-year-old. It doesn't work. It's offensive to people."
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Elon Musk's role with the government was limited to 130 days. His exit seemed to come at the perfect time.
"It's just been a very intense 100 days, where at times I was here full time. So at the beginning, I was here in D.C. seven days a week for some of the weeks in the beginning, or close to seven days a week," Musk explained in an
interview earlier this month. "And now we're getting more of a rhythm and so the amount of time that is necessary for me to spend here is much less."
