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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Trump Responds to Elon Musk's Criticism, Says Administration "Will Be Negotiating" the Tax Bill [Watch (HLS stream): Trump Responds to Elon Musk's Criticism, Says Administration "Will Be Negotiating" the Tax Bill](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8hyADdki.m3u8) (1:39)  _Published 2025-05-28. U.S. President Donald Trump is responding to Elon Musk's criticism of the Republican tax bill. After Musk said he was "disappointed" in Trump's "big beautiful bill," the president defended his agenda by talking about the delicate politics involved._ --- May 28, 2025 7:21 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [‘I’m Very Disappointed in Elon’: Trump Says ‘Great Relationship’ With Musk May Be Over](/video/nXkMbeb1/) ### ‘I’m Very Disappointed in Elon’: Trump Says ‘Great Relationship’ With Musk May Be Over [Inside Elon Musk’s War on Washington ](/video/m1fUXU7Q/) ### Inside Elon Musk’s War on Washington [Elon Musk’s 2018](/video/RwAa0O1g/) ### Elon Musk’s 2018 --- ## Transcript Mr. President. Elon Musk, in a television interview, criticized the one beautiful, big, beautiful bill, saying he was disappointed it didn't cut enough, essentially, that it undercut the Doge efforts. What's your reaction to that? Well, my reaction is a lot of things. Number one, we have to get a lot of votes. We can't be cutting. You know, we need we need to get a lot of support and we have a lot of support. We had to get it through the house. The house was we have no Democrats. You know, if it's up to the Democrats, they'll take the 65% increase. You know, if that doesn't get approved, this country is going to have a 65% increase in taxes and lots of other problems, big problems, almost bigger than that. But we'll have a 65% increase as opposed to the largest tax cut in the history of our country. 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. That's the way they go. It's very big. It's the big, beautiful Bill. But the beautiful is because of all of the things we have. The biggest thing being, I would say, the the level of tax cutting that we're going to be doing. We're going to make people really be able to we'll have one of the we'll have the lowest tax rate we've ever had in the history of our country. And tremendous amounts of benefit are going to the middle income people of our country, low and middle income people of our country. So we're going to see what happens because the Senate, as you know, is negotiating with us. And they have to then go back to the house. And, you know, it's got a way to go. But I have to say, Speaker Johnson and Thune have done an incredible job. John Thune has done a fantastic leader. Thune. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Trump Responds to Elon Musk's Criticism, Says Administration \"Will Be Negotiating\" the Tax Bill","description":"U.S. President Donald Trump is responding to Elon Musk's criticism of the Republican tax bill. After Musk said he was \"disappointed\" in Trump's \"big beautiful bill,\" the president defended his agenda by talking about the delicate politics involved. 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