Musk calls Trump’s big tax break bill a ‘disgusting abomination,’ testing his influence over the GOP

Elon Musk has turned on Donald Trump, blasting the president’s landmark tax-and-spending bill as a “disgusting abomination.” In a fiery post on X, Musk condemned the legislation—which slashes subsidies benefiting Tesla and boosts federal spending—as a betrayal of the American people. The move marks a dramatic shift and a sharp rupture with Trump, just days after Musk’s Oval Office farewell from the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. Charli James welcomes Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in International Security at the University of Portsmouth, to offer in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the on-going political fallout.