Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line

Elon Musk has publicly broken with Donald Trump over the latter's budget reconciliation bill, calling it a "pork-filled … abomination" that would undermine the work his DOGE cost-cutting unit has done. But the bill also hits close to Tesla tycoon's pocketbook, and at least one expert thinks it spells terrible news for the US electric vehicle industry overall.

When the president tapped Musk to lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency through executive order - it was never a true federal agency, as only Congress can create one - the Tesla and SpaceX CEO pledged he and his minions would find more than $2 trillion to cut out of the $8 trillion-ish US annual government budget, a target he later revised to $1 trillion.

So far, DOGE has so far failed to live up to those early claims, with Musk telling the White House in April that his team had only ...