According to a NewsBusters study, ABC, CBS, and NBC’s coverage of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting efforts at DOGE was 97 percent negative, but on Wednesday, their respective morning shows of Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and Today found a strange new respect for Musk’s concerns about the deficit as they used him to undermine the Big Beautiful Bill recently passed by the House.
ABC’s Jay O’Brien began his report by declaring, “President Trump has been adamant he wants Republicans united behind his mega bill full of a laundry list of campaign promises. But one top ally is still not on board this morning, Elon Musk.”
The origin of all three reports was Musk sitting down with CBS Sunday Morning for an interview that will air on June 1. In a clip of that interview, Musk was shown declaring, “I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly. Which increases the budget deficit, not decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
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