Elon Musk turns Congress upside down after torching Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

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Congressional Republicans faced their latest curveball Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda when Elon Musk abruptly blasted Trump’s tax and spending legislation as a “disgusting abomination” for adding to the deficit.

Musk’s takedown of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” offered a strange moment for Republicans and Democrats, who suddenly swapped places.

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