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Elon Musk further criticizes Trump’s spending bill, saying a new one should be drafted

Elon Musk, who only days ago left his role in Donald Trump’s administration, continues his onslaught of attacks on the president’s spending bill working its way through Congress, saying on social media that a new one should be drafted.

He wrote on his X platform:

A new spending bill should be drafted that doesn’t massively grow the deficit and increase the debt ceiling by 5 TRILLION DOLLARS.

In a phrase he repeats in several posts from today, the billionaire said:

America is in the fast lane to debt slavery.

It comes only a day after Musk blasted the bill as a “disgusting abomination”. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” he wrote on X yesterday.

He had previously said he was “disappointed” by the bill, which in adding $2.4tn to the budget deficit would “undermine” the work of his Doge federal cost-cutting team.

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David Smith

David Smith

I’m at a Democratic conference in Washington where party divisions were exposed when pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the stage.

Congressman Ritchie Torres, a staunch supporter of Israel who has publicly rejected claims of genocide in Gaza, was being interviewed by journalist Josh Barro at WelcomeFest, billed as the biggest public gathering of centrist Democrats.

About a dozen demonstrators marched forward and gathered around Torres with signs that included “Fire Ritchie” and “Gays against Genocide”. The New York congressman indicated that he welcomed the protesters’ right to free speech, responding: “Freedom is a beautiful thing. Thank God for freedom!”

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Organisers of the event including Liam Kerr – wearing a football jersey customised with former senator Joe Manchin’s name on the back – joined security staff in removing the protesters, who offered token resistance.

As they did so, Carly Simon’s 1972 hit “You’re So Vain“ boomed from loudspeakers with an accompanying video. Once the demonstrators were gone, some audience members rose to give a standing ovation.

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