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First Buddies No More?: Elon Musk Breaks Publicly With Trump On One Big Beautiful Bill

2025-05-28 3 Dailymotion

The House passed President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” in a narrow vote last week. The legislation – which is over 1,000 pages long – is the signature of Trump’s second term, as it would enact his hallmark tax and immigration policies. However, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it could add 2.3 trillion to the national debt, and that’s seemingly a pain point for Elon Musk. In a snippet of an interview airing Sunday on CBS, the world’s richest person said he was "disappointed" with the bill. Forbes senior editor Alan Ohnsman joined Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Talks" to discuss.

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