{"id":155154,"date":"2025-06-29T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/insane-and-destructive-elon-musk-resumes-attacks-on-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:58:03","slug":"insane-and-destructive-elon-musk-resumes-attacks-on-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/insane-and-destructive-elon-musk-resumes-attacks-on-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"'Insane and destructive': Elon Musk resumes attacks on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elon Musk<\/a> launched a series of attacks on Saturday against a massive spending bill that would fund much of President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda, renewing his criticisms as Senate Republicans rush to pass a package<\/a> dubbed the \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d in order to meet a July 4 deadline set by Trump.
\u201cThe latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!\u201d Musk wrote in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cUtterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.\u201d
The billionaire and former Trump adviser amplified a poll that suggests the \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d is politically unpopular due to its budgetary effects, a notion that was affirmed this month by several separate surveys. <\/a>Forty percent of Republican respondents to a recent NBC News Decision Desk poll<\/a> said \u201censuring the national debt is reduced\u201d is the most important issue as Congress considers the Trump-backed megabill. Overall, a majority of respondents said maintaining current spending levels on programs like Medicaid is the most important issue.
\u201cPolls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party,\u201d Musk wrote on X.<\/a>
Musk has long been a critic of Trump\u2019s \u201cbig, beautiful bill,\u201d balking at its expected impact on the national deficit and arguing that it would offset government savings brought in by the Department of Government Efficiency, an office Trump appointed him to lead earlier this year. He maintained that opinion Saturday, expressing it through several posts on his platform, X \u2014 including one post <\/a>that attacked the bill\u2019s expected effect on the deficit as \u201cputting America in the fast lane to debt slavery!\u201d
Trump previously argued that Musk only opposed the legislation because of provisions aimed at stripping away electric vehicle tax credits. Musk today called a provision<\/a> in the bill that he framed as targeting clean energy production \u201cincredibly destructive to America.\u201d
The Tesla chief\u2019s departure from the White House<\/a>, where he formally served as a special government employee, came a day after he publicly expressed his criticisms of the bill during an interview with \u201cCBS Sunday Morning.\u201d
\u201cI think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, I don\u2019t know if it can be both,\u201d Musk said at the time.<\/a>
While Musk no longer commands similar levels of influence in Washington, his past opposition to the bill emboldened Republicans lawmakers<\/a>, some of whom, like Musk, took issue with its expected $4 trillion increase to the national deficit.
The renewed criticism by Musk comes as Senate Republicans rush to whip enough votes to pass the 940-page megabill amid breaks in the party over certain provisions, including expected cuts to Medicaid that could strip funding from rural hospitals. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., cited the loss of rural hospital funding in explaining his decision to oppose the bill.
Earlier this month, shortly after the House of Representatives passed its version of the bill, Musk urged his more<\/a> than 200 million followers on X to tell Congress to \u201ckill the bill.\u201d
Nnamdi Egwuonwu is a politics reporter at NBC News.
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