WATCH: Congressional Budget Office figures shouldn’t be trusted, White House says

The White House doubled down Tuesday on its claims that President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill doesn’t add to the federal deficit and that anyone who says otherwise is “blatantly wrong.”

The White House has now directly countered figures from the Congressional Budget Office several times. The office has said that while the proposed budget cuts spending in various areas, it will still ultimately add about $4 trillion to the federal deficit. 

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week that projections from the office have been wrong before and are wrong now. However, Tuesday she added that the office has become tainted by political bias and is no longer a truly independent, nonpartisan agency as it is supposed to be.

“There hasn’t been a single staffer in the entire Congressional Budget Office that has contributed to a Republican since the year 2000, but guess what? There have been many staffers… who have contributed to Democrat candidates and politicians every single cycle since,” Leavitt told reporters Tuesday afternoon. 

“Unfortunately, this is an institution in our country that has become partisan and political,” Leavitt said.

However, there are others who appear confident that the current budget will add to the deficit and have expressed their concern. In fact, ex-special government employee Elon Musk, who just finished leading a cost-cutting crusade at the Trump-sanctioned Department of Government Efficiency, came out with perhaps his most scathing statement about the budget yet on Tuesday afternoon. 

Musk took to his social media platform condemning the budget bill and censuring those who have voted for it.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

As the bill has come before the Senate, there are also some senators who insist that the bill will add to the federal deficit and it should be amended to avoid this outcome. Fiscal conservatives like Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are among them. Paul shared Musk’s post on X Tuesday.

“I agree with Elon. We have both seen the massive waste in government spending and we know another $5 trillion in debt is a huge mistake. We can and must do better,” Paul wrote.

Lee has said that the bill is “big but it’s not beautiful yet.”

Leavitt endorsed the president’s position on such senators, echoing that they don’t “have their facts together.”