Elon Musk Is Still Bashing Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' - Business Insider
Elon Musk isn't done trying to kill President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."
For two days now, the tech titan has been posting — and reposting — on X about the bill's impact on the debt. Multiple independent forecasters have said that the version of the bill passed by the House last month would add more than $2 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years.
Musk has taken to calling it the "Debt Slavery Bill," said the bill is at odds with the goals of DOGE, exhorted his followers to call members of Congress about to get them to oppose it, and repeatedly urged Republicans to scrap the bill and start anew.
He also posted a promotional photo from the 2003 thriller "Kill Bill."
Republicans' response has been muted. Trump has yet to publicly weigh in on Musk's ongoing post-storm, while GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill are largely dismissing it.
House Speaker Mike Johnson visibly rolled his eyes when reporters asked him about Musk's call for a new bill on Wednesday.
"We don't have time for a brand new bill," Johnson said. "And I want Elon and all my friends to recognize the complexity of what we've accomplished here."
Some Republicans have also insinuated that Musk may be upset about the fact that the bill phases out tax credits for electric vehicles that Congress passed under President Joe Biden. NBC News reported that Musk lobbied to keep those tax credits in place, and Johnson even brought up the credits when he initially responded to Musk's criticism on Tuesday.
"I know that has an effect on his business, and I lament that," Johnson said.
Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
All of this comes after Musk's departure from the White House last week, which followed a media blitz in which he expressed disappointment about public perceptions of DOGE and the backlash faced by his companies, including Tesla.
His criticism of the "Big Beautiful Bill" has been greeted warmly by Republicans who share his concerns about the deficit, but so far, his comments don't seem to have changed the overall dynamic within the party on the bill.