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Elon Musk
calls Trump’s big bill ‘utterly insane and destructive’ as Senate debates
Passing the
package, Musk said, would be ‘political suicide’ for the Republican party
Guardian
staff and agencies
Sun 29 Jun
2025 02.23 BST
The
billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Saturday criticized the latest
version of Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly
insane and destructive.
“The latest
Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense
strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote on Saturday as the Senate was
scheduled to call a vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill.
“Utterly
insane and destructive,” Musk added. “It gives handouts to industries of the
past while severely damaging industries of the future.”
Passing the
package, Musk said, would be “political suicide for the Republican Party.”
Musk’s
comment reopens a recent fiery conflict between the former head of the
Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) and the administration he recently
left. They also represent yet another headache for Republican Senate leaders
who have spent the weekend working overtime to get the legislation through
their chamber so it can pass by Trump’s Fourth of July deadline.
Earlier this
month, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO also came out against the House version of
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, denouncing that proposal as a “disgusting
abomination”.
“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, he wrote at the time.
Musk’s
forceful denouncement of Trump’s spending plans triggered a deep and public
rift between the billionaire and the president, though Musk in recent weeks has
been working to mend relations.
On Saturday,
Musk posted a series of disparaging comments about the senate version of the
bill, which argued the legislation would undermine US investments in renewable
energy.
Musk boosted
several comments from Jesse Jenkins, a macro-scale energy systems engineer who
teaches at Princeton.
After
Jenkins wrote, “The energy provisions in the Republicans’ One Big Horrible Bill
are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country’s automakers don’t want it.
Electric utilities don’t want it. Data center developers don’t want it.
Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don’t want it.” Musk replied:
“Good question. Who?”
Musk’s
continued criticism of Trump’s budget proposals comes as the bill faces a rocky
path in the senate. Republicans are hoping to use their majorities to overcome
Democratic opposition, but several Republican senators are concerned over
provisions that would reduce spending on Medicaid and food stamps to help cover
the cost of extending Trump’s tax breaks. Meanwhile, fiscal conservatives are
worried about the nation’s debt are pushing for steeper cuts.
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