Elon Musk calls Senate bill ‘political suicide’ for destroying jobs

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Former Trump DOGE chief Elon Musk weighed in against the Senate megabill – this time just before a critical vote where the outcome is uncertain.

WASHINGTON – Billionaire Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s former adviser on cutting government spending, fired off another set of attacks against the president’s legislative package for potentially killing millions of jobs.

Musk, the former head of the advisory Department of Government Efficiency, had quieted his harsh criticism of Trump and the legislation the week after his departure from government May 30.

But he blasted the bill again on June 28 less than an hour before the Senate was prepared to hold a critical vote to begin debate.

“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk said on social media. “Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”

Musk added in a later post that “Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party.”

Musk is the owner of the social-media platform X, where he posted his messages to 220 million followers. He is also the CEO of Tesla, which manufactures electric vehicles, and SpaceX, which makes rockets to ferry people and supplies to the International Space Station.

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.

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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