United States President Donald Trump has brushed aside criticism of his wide-ranging budget bill — known as the One Big Beautiful Bill — from a high-profile source, government adviser Elon Musk.
On Wednesday, at a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office, Trump faced questions about Musk’s comments, which suggested the bill would balloon the national debt.
The Republican leader responded with a degree of ambivalence, though he staunchly defended the bill’s tax cuts.
“We will be negotiating that bill, and I’m not happy about certain aspects of it, but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it,” Trump said. “That’s the way they go.”
The budget bill clocks in at over a thousand pages, and it contains a range of domestic policy priorities for the Trump administration.
That includes legislation