THE NEW YORK TIMES: Weeks after ending his war of words with President Trump, Elon Musk called the president’s bill “utterly insane and destructive.”
Elon Musk waded back into the political fray on Saturday, slamming a major domestic policy bill that Senate Republicans are scrambling to pass, just weeks after he ended a feud with President Trump over the legislation.
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, G.O.P. leaders released a new 940-page version of the legislation to carry out the president’s agenda. Like the House version, the bill would slash taxes, scale back Medicaid, cut nutritional assistance and increase spending on the military and immigration enforcement.
But the Senate also included some new measures intended to mollify holdouts in the Republican ranks, including a fund to help rural hospitals that depend on Medicaid. Leaders in the Republican majority are hoping to push the bill through the Senate and win final approval in the House before Mr. Trump’s deadline of July 4.
Mr. Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, had been relatively quiet since his blowup with the president this month, but as the Senate convened to discuss the package on Saturday afternoon, he re-entered the debate, calling the bill “utterly insane and destructive” in a post on X.
“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” he wrote on X. » | Ashley Ahn | Saturday, June 28, 2025
