Elon Musk Renews His Criticism Of Trump’s Big Bill As It Faces A Key Senate Vote

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on June 5, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2025 and Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2025. President Donald Trump said on June 5, 2025, that he asked “crazy” Elon Musk to leave his administration and threatened to take away the tech tycoon’s government contracts, as a growing row over the US president’s budget bill triggered a bitter public divorce with his top donor. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski and Allison ROBBERT / AFP) (Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI,ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk is doubling down on his distaste for President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts bill. In a social media post on Saturday, Musk argued the legislation that Republican senators are scrambling to pass would kill jobs and bog down burgeoning industries. As the Senate was scheduled to call a vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill, Musk wrote that it would “cause immense strategic harm to our country.” The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, whose birthday is also Saturday, later posted that the bill would be “political suicide for the Republican Party.” The criticisms reopen a recent fiery conflict between the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency and the administration he recently left.