Elon Musk launched a series of attacks on Saturday against a massive bill of expenses that would finance much of the agenda of President Donald Trump, renewing his criticisms when the Senate Republicans rush to approve the package, called “Great and beautiful bill”, to comply with a deadline of July 4 established by Trump.
“The last Senate bill will destroy millions of jobs in the United States and cause immense strategic damage to our country!” Musk wrote in a publication about X. “completely crazy and destructive. Give brochures to the industries of the past while damaging the industries of the future.”
The multimillionaire and former Trump advisor amplified a survey that suggests that the “Big and beautiful bill” is politically unpopular due to its budgetary effects, a notion that was affirmed this month for several separate surveys. Forty percent of Republican respondents of a recent survey of the NBC news decision writing said that “guaranteeing that national debt is reduced” is the most important issue since Congress considers the mega bill backed by Trump. In general, most respondents said that maintaining current spending levels in programs such as Medicaid is the most important issue.
“Surveys show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican party,” Musk wrote in X.
Musk has long been a critic of the “great and beautiful bill” of Trump, in his expected impact on the national deficit and arguing that he would compensate for the government’s savings brought by the government’s efficiency department, an organization that Trump named him to lead earlier this year. He maintained that opinion on Saturday, expressing it through several publications on its platform, X, including a publication that attacked the expected effect of the bill on the deficit “such as” putting the United States in the rapid lane to the slavery of the debt! “
Trump previously argued that Musk only opposed the legislation due to the provisions aimed at eliminating the tax credits of electric vehicles. Musk today described a provision in the bill that framed how to point to the production of clean energy “incredibly destructive for the United States.”
The heading of the Tesla de la Casa White Chief, 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 “CBS Sunday Morning”.
“I think an invoice can be large or can be beautiful, I don’t know if both can be,” Musk said at that time.
While Musk no longer has similar levels of influence in Washington, his opposition passed to the draft embedded law to Republican legislators, some of which, as Musk, disagree with their expected increase of $ 4 billion to the national deficit.
Musk’s renewed criticism occurs when Senate Republicans rush enough votes to approve the 940 pages megabill in the midst of breaks in the party on certain provisions, including the expected cuts to Medicaid that could strip the funds of rural hospitals. Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C, cited the loss of funds from the Rural Hospital by explaining his decision to oppose the bill.
Earlier this month, shortly after the House of Representatives approved its version of the bill, Musk urged its more than 200 million followers in X to tell Congress to “kill the bill.”
