Elon Musk Calls Big Beautiful Bill “Destructive” And “Insane” As Senators Cast Votes

After staying quiet for the last two weeks about President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Elon Musk once again expressed his opinions on the bill.

In a post on X, Musk called the Big Beautiful Bill “destructive” and “insane.”

Musk posted his negative remarks on the bill as senators were set to vote on it.

NBC News covered Musk’s latest post on X more closely:

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!”

Take a look:

The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!

Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future. https://t.co/TZ9w1g7zHF

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2025

Musk later added the bill was “political suicide” for the Republican Party.

Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party pic.twitter.com/HJwKZ9g4tu

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2025

The posts kept coming:

This would be incredibly destructive to America! https://t.co/NupyRCFCZA

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2025

Good question. Who?

At the same time, this bill raises the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION, the biggest increase in history, putting America in the fast lane to debt slavery! https://t.co/6WxVgt9pRl

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2025

Last time Musk publicly railed against the bill, it started a feud with President Trump.

USA Today provided context on Musk’s previous posts:

Musk trashed the legislation as a “disgusting abomination” for not cutting government spending enough. He also alleged Trump appeared in confidential Justice Department files about the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, which the White House has denied. But Musk later apologized.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” Musk said in a 3:04 a.m., June 11 post on X, without specifying which posts he was sorry about.

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Trump has blamed Musk’s criticism on the president ending government subsidies for electric vehicles and rejecting the corporate executive’s choice to head NASA.

“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

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