'Insane and destructive': Elon Musk resumes attacks on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Elon Musk launched a series of attacks on Saturday against a massive spending bill that would fund much of President Donald Trump’s agenda, renewing his criticisms as Senate Republicans rush to pass a package dubbed the “big, beautiful bill” in order to meet a July 4 deadline set by Trump.“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote in a post on X. “Utterly insane and destructive.

Elon Musk launched a series of attacks on Saturday against a massive spending bill that would fund much of President Donald Trump’s agenda, renewing his criticisms as Senate Republicans rush to pass a package dubbed the “big, beautiful bill” in order to meet a July 4 deadline set by Trump.

“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote in a post on X. “Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”

The billionaire and former Trump adviser amplified a poll that suggests the “big, beautiful bill” is politically unpopular due to its budgetary effects, a notion that was affirmed this month by several separate surveys. Forty percent of Republican respondents to a recent NBC News Decision Desk poll said “ensuring the national debt is reduced” 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.

“Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party,” Musk wrote on X.

Musk has long been a critic of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” 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 — including one post that attacked the bill’s expected effect on the deficit as “putting America in the fast lane to debt slavery!”