After tech billionaire Elon Musk slammed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” as a “disgusting abomination” on Tuesday, he has continued to rally against the multitrillion-dollar package on social media.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote in his original post on X, calling it a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled” bill.
“Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” he continued.
In a separate post, he said the bill will “burden” Americans since it would “massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!),” adding in another, “Congress is making America bankrupt.”
“This immense level of overspending will drive America into debt slavery!” he also wrote on Wednesday, and reposted criticism from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who have both already publicly opposed the bill and faced threats from Trump.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who muscled the bill through, broke his silence to the news on Wednesday, saying that the president is “not delighted that Elon did a 180 on that.”
“Look, I don’t know what happened in 24 hours,” he said on Wednesday. “So everybody can draw their own conclusions about that, OK. But I look forward to talking to my friend about it again, and I’m not upset about it.”
While Trump himself has not personally weighed in on Musk’s tirade, a Republican aide told Jake Sherman, the founder of Punchbowl News, his reason as to why the Tesla CEO decided to switch his view.
“The guy that was pro the package until he realized he wasn’t going to get his way with the EV tax credits,” the aide told Sherman.
The current version of the bill, which narrowly passed through the House last month and has made its way to the Senate, would phase out the Biden-era consumer tax credit after 2026 for new electric vehicles. The credit, which allows consumers buying a new vehicle to claim up to $7,500, would no longer qualify for automakers that sold more than 200,000 vehicles from Dec. 31, 2009, to the same date at the end of this year.
In late May, Musk reposted a post from his company, Tesla Energy, that warned against the tax credit being pulled too quickly due to the bill.
“Abruptly ending the energy tax credits would threaten America’s energy independence and the reliability of our grid - we urge the senate to enact legislation with a sensible wind down of 25D and 48e,” the post reads.
In a separate post, Musk also said that “there is no change to tax incentives for oil & gas, just EV/solar.”
Musk’s sharp critique of the bill comes after the world’s richest man ended his time in the Trump administration as a special government employee last Friday. He had already expressed similar concerns of the bill during an interview with CBS News, in which he said the budget bill “undermines” the mission of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he led in slashing the size of the federal government.
“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion,” Musk said during the interview with “CBS Sunday Morning.”
Musk has appeared to distance himself from Trump and national politics over the past few weeks. He has blasted the reputational hit that his companies, including Tesla, have taken from his role in DOGE. He also announced that he would pull back his political spending after he backed Trump during the 2024 election cycle with an estimated $250 million.