Elon Musk is back to slamming Donald Trump’s 'big, beautiful bill': 'Utterly insane and destructive'

AUSTIN, TEXAS: Elon Musk is back to taking a sledgehammer to Donald Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”

In a barrage of posts on X (formerly Twitter), the billionaire tech mogul torched the proposed legislation as nothing short of a disaster, calling it “utterly insane and destructive” and warning it could be “political suicide” for the Republican Party.

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

“This bill raises the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION, the biggest increase in history,” he added in a follow-up post, warning that this move would mean “putting America in the fast lane to debt slavery!”

Elon Musk continues slamming Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Elon Musk went further, ripping into the bill’s economic priorities. He accused it of favoring dying industries while punishing innovation. “It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future,” he said.

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO also resurfaced one of his biggest gripes with the Trump-backed proposal — that it slashes clean energy incentives.

While Trump’s camp has claimed that Musk’s opposition stems from EV tax credits being cut, Musk didn’t deny that clean energy is being targeted. In fact, he called one provision “incredibly destructive to America.”

Musk even shared a post from another user who wrote, “We’re not shooting ourselves in the foot. We’re shooting ourselves in the chest,” to which Musk added, “Yes, utter madness!”

In another post, citing Republican polling data, the Tesla CEO wrote, “Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party.” According to the numbers he shared, 58 percent of Republicans believe the bill will “burden Americans with crushingly unsustainable debt.”

Earlier this month, right after the House passed its version of the bill, Musk told his 200 million X followers to sound the alarm. “Call your Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL,” he wrote, before sharing an image of Uma Thurman in the 2003 film 'Kill Bill'.

Meanwhile, the Senate is scrambling. GOP leadership is racing to secure votes for the 940-page behemoth of a bill, which includes a slew of controversial provisions, like major cuts to Medicaid. Senator Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) has already come out against it, citing its potential to gut rural hospital funding.

Elon Musk criticized Donald Trump’s 'big, beautiful bill' before DOGE exit 

It's worth noting that Elon Musk has been calling out Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill" for months, even while serving in the latter's administration.

After winning the 2024 presidential election, Trump tapped Musk to head up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a post that saw the billionaire attempt to slash federal spending by $1 trillion.

While that didn't happen, more than 216,000 federal employees and contractors were shown the door during Musk’s cost-cutting blitz — a 624 percent spike in government layoffs compared to Q1 of 2024. But even that wasn’t enough to offset what Musk saw as the bill’s damage.

He finally resigned from his government gig the day after airing his frustrations in a sit-down with CBS Sunday Morning. “I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, I don’t know if it can be both,” he quipped during the interview.

Though he no longer has an official seat at the White House table, his voice still rings loud. With Senate Republicans locked in a high-stakes push to pass the bill — which includes $3.8 trillion in tax cuts and raises the government’s borrowing cap — Musk’s criticism could shape how this showdown plays out.

Even the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget weighed in, warning the bill could swell the national debt by up to $4.5 trillion over the next decade.