Billionaire Musk unexpectedly continues to harshly criticize the “big and beautiful” bill, Mr. Trump immediately responds
After announcing his retirement from politics, billionaire Elon Musk quickly returned to the spotlight.
According to CNN, as the Senate debated President Donald Trump’s “big and beautiful bill” on June 30, before the final vote, Mr. Musk sent out a harsh warning on the social media platform X.
“The members of Congress who campaigned on spending cuts and then voted for the largest debt increase in history should be ashamed! And I will not let them win next year’s primaries – at all costs,” the American billionaire wrote.
Hours later, Mr. Musk continued to claim that if “this crazy spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.”
“Our country needs an alternative to the Democratic Party – the Republican Party, so that the people can truly have a voice,” Mr. Musk wrote.
Then, in a late social media post on the evening of June 30, Mr. Trump proposed the Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to target billionaire Musk, who had recently left the agency.
“Musk is probably the biggest recipient of subsidies in history, and without them, he would have closed his company and gone back to South Africa. No more rocket launches, satellites, or electric cars – and our country would have saved a ton of money. Maybe we should let DOGE in and check this out? We could save a lot of money!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
In recent weeks, Mr. Musk has repeatedly attacked Mr. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” leading to a tense and public confrontation that began in early June. On June 11, Mr. Musk publicly apologized to Mr. Trump on social media: “I regret some of my posts about President Trump. They went too far.”
According to Reuters and Axios, the apology came after Musk received a call from the White House, including from Vice President JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Musk felt he had “gone too far” in his criticisms, and decided to tone it down to de-escalate tensions.
The pledge to back candidates challenging incumbents is one of Mr. Musk’s most concrete political statements since leaving his role as a White House adviser. He has spent more than $ 275 million supporting Mr. Trump and other Republican candidates in the 2024 election. In late May, he said in an interview that he would scale back his political spending because he “has done enough.”
According to Federal Election Commission filings, Musk’s political action committee America PAC last spent money in March to support two Republican candidates running in Florida — Randy Fine and Jimmy Patronis.
Mr Musk has long advocated closing borders, deportations and stopping illegal immigration – consistent with the Trump administration.
However, the domestic policy bill appears to have created a rift between the Tesla CEO and the White House, with Musk arguing that the Republican bill would increase the national debt.
