House Speaker Mike Johnson defended the Republican reconciliation bill after tech billionaire and recently departed special government employee Elon Musk called it “disgusting.”
“With all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big, beautiful bill,” Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday. “We had a long conversation yesterday. He and I spoke for, I think, more than 20 minutes on the telephone, and I extolled all the virtues of the bill, and he seemed to understand that.”
Musk posted on X Tuesday that he “just can’t stand it anymore.”