Republican congressional leaders pushed back Wednesday on Elon Musk’s harsh criticism of President Trump’s signature budget bill as a fiscally dangerous “disgusting abomination.”

Sen. John Thune and Rep. Mike Johnson both aggressively defended Trump’s sprawling Big Beautiful Bill even as a non-partisan congressional watchdog group said it would add 2.4 trillion to the national debt, seemingly bolstering Musk’s point.

“I think he’s flat wrong, and I’ve told him as much,” Johnson, the House Speaker, told reporters at a news conference

Thune, the Senate majority leader, likewise downplayed the influence of Musk , who recently left the administration after a mostly failed effort to slash spending using his Department of Government Efficiency.

“Obviously [Musk] has some influence, go

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