‘Kill the bill’: Musk continues broadsides against the Republican megabill

Elon Musk is still trying to rally Republicans against the “big beautiful bill” that he spent most of Tuesday bashing and which caused an uproar among GOP lawmakers.

“Call you Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok!” Musk wrote on X on Wednesday. “KILL the BILL.”

The effort from Musk against the megabill marks an escalation of the biggest rift yet between Musk and the White House, which he departed from just last week as his role as special adviser came to an anticlimactic close. It’s also the most public break between the tech mogul and President Donald Trump, who has called the bill “arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that will ever be signed in the History of our Country.”

The White House was “perplexed, unenthused, and disappointed” by Musk’s bashing of the bill, a senior official told POLITICO on Tuesday. Allies of the Trump administration argue that Musk’s criticism — and his less-than-veiled threat of retaliation — is tied to his business interests with car company Tesla, which will take a hit after the bill axes tax credits for electric vehicles.

But Musk received more evidence to help hammer home his larger point about the bill increasing spending: the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office announced Wednesday that the megabill could add over two trillion dollars to the federal deficit over the next decade.