Elon Musk leaves Trump admin

Musk, who has announced he’s stepping back from his Department of Government Efficiency — a body that quickly became an exponent of the second Trump administration’s vision — told CBS News in an interview that he was “disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”

The network released an excerpt of the interview on Tuesday night. It will be broadcast on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend.

The legislation, which Trump calls his “big, beautiful bill” and includes an array of tax cuts, now goes to the Senate. Musk, the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, seemed to echo the concerns of some Republicans in the House and Senate who believe the legislation costs too much and demand more spending reductions.