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Elon Musk made several last-ditch arguments on X, formerly Twitter, ahead of Saturday’s planned vote in the Senate that will look to advance President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful” spending bill in a key vote.
Musk, who had spent months as a close Trump ally during his time leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), very publicly criticized the bill after departing the federal government and returning to the private sector. Trump and Musk then had a very public falling out, hurling insults and allegations at each other.
The tech mogul renewed his criticism on Saturday in a series of posts on X, writing that the bill “raises the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION, the biggest increase in history, putting America in the fast lane to debt slavery!”
“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country! Utterly insane and destructive,” Musk wrote in a separate X post. “It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”
He quickly followed it with a post that included polling by The Tarrance Group, which showed the majority of all voters and even various groups of declared Republican voters, agree with Musk’s criticism and would grossly increase the federal budget by trillions of dollars.
“Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party,” he wrote.
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