Isn’t it amazing? After blasting Elon Musk and his work at DOGE over the past year, calling him a Nazi, an “oligarch” and an “unelected autocrat”, Democrats and the liberal media are now celebrating the Tesla founder.
All it took was for the brilliant entrepreneur to slam President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”, posting on X: “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.” Further, he admonished those supporting the bill, saying “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
Voila, suddenly Musk is an authority on the giant reconciliation bill Republicans are trying to put on the president’s desk this summer which cuts taxes.
Musk is angry that after all the hard work he and his DOGE team put into cutting government spending, we have a bill that will add to our national debt. I cannot disagree; I would like to see more spending cuts. But I’m also wary of estimates from the CBO and elsewhere that undercount the growth aspects of the bill. The CBO issued similar warnings about the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, forecasting that revenues would plummet; they were wrong.
Those of us in the bleachers watching this tax bill evolve – or any budget bill- are always disgusted by the horse trading. I’m angry at Josh Hawley for opposing Medicaid reforms, and at Rick Scott for yelling about bigger spending cuts even when to my knowledge he hasn’t offered an alternative plan. Scott comes from a red state; for others in the House and Senate who have to fight for reelection, there are local priorities that crimp their ambitions. That’s the real world.
Meanwhile, the hammering of the BBB and the Trump White House from the liberal media is no surprise. These are the same folks who:
1) accused Trump of displaying mental deterioration, while they ignored Joe Biden’s actual senility;
2) says Trump has undermined journalism, though he takes questions from reporters almost every day, but never complained that Biden refused most interviews and rarely held press conferences;
3) accuses Trump’s family of benefiting from his presidency, but were eager to take Hunter Biden’s hideous “art” seriously and mostly ignored Jim Comer’s investigations into Biden family corruption;
4) accuses Trump of pardoning allies but never blinked when Biden pardoned his family and others for unspecified crimes over many years;
5) calls Trump a racist but has studiously ignored numerous episodes of Joe Biden, author of the controversial (some say racist) 1994 crime bill, talking about black youths in an unsavory manner. In 2019: Biden told a crowd in Iowa that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” Oops.
6) blasts Trump for “weaponizing” his Department of Justice, but Original Sin, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, describes the Biden White House viciously denouncing not only Special Council Robert Hur, but also Attorney General Merrick Garland because Hur described Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” They should have been grateful that Hur did not recommend prosecution.
7) hit Trump for his careless handling of classified documents, but quietly ignored Hur’s finding that Biden knowingly and willfully kept secret memos, and shared them.
8) is hyper-focused on price increases that might stem from Trump’s tariff wars, but made excuses for Bidenflation, which topped out at over 9%?
There’s so much more – but that’s enough for today. Bottom line: check the facts, ignore stories based on “anonymous sources” and let common sense rule!
