Elon Musk Rekindles Trump Criticism, Assaults ‘Large, Lovely Invoice’

The long-simmering feud between President Donald Trump and his former ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk is displaying indicators of boiling over as soon as extra. Following the passing of Trump’s signature “One Large Lovely Invoice” that can supply tax breaks to the rich whereas kicking millions off of Medicaid, Musk publicly supported Senator Rand Paul’s criticism (one of many few Republican ‘no’ votes within the Senate), particularly Paul’s assertion that the invoice would ‘explode the deficit.

Rand posted on X, “The Large Not-So-Lovely Invoice has formally handed each chambers. Regardless of a couple of conservative provisions, it explodes the deficit within the close to time period. That is Washington’s MO: short-term politicking over long-term sustainability.’ Musk reposted this remark, expressing settlement with a ‘100’ emoji, his first public assertion on the invoice since its official passage.

💯 https://t.co/uYnJcY4far

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2025

Musk has been criticizing the invoice for a while: it marked an early level of rivalry in his relationship with the President, finally culminating in a big public spat throughout which Musk accused Trump of appearing in Jeffrey Epstein’s black book (an assault he would later deleted and retracted). He beforehand referred to the spending invoice because the “Debt Slavery Bill.” He additionally provided some very salient and well-reasoned critiques, like “I believe a invoice will be massive or it may be stunning, however I don’t know if it may be each,” and “we stay in a one-party nation – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!” Actually makes you suppose.

Regardless of his vital opposition to the Large, Lovely Invoice—one so robust that he was seemingly prepared to throw away his relationship with the President over it—he didn’t flex his political energy, no matter of it stays, to cease it from passing. He did subject a pretty lame threat to oust the members of the Republican get together who forged their vote for the invoice sooner or later earlier than the Senate voted on it, however that reads extra like jeering from the sidelines from a man who was once within the enviornment. For a man who’s on-line all day to solely supply up a single menace and a few vital posts, it simply feels a little bit phoned in.

Musk insists that his opposition to the invoice comes from a spot of being a real finances hawk, which possibly he’s. However Trump has referred to as him out for masking up his self-interest in opposing the laws, because it cuts clear power credit for solar projects and electric vehicles, which Musk’s corporations would have benefited from. Musk has issued no objection to the cuts to meals advantages and healthcare, by the best way. Austerity is ok for everybody else, it appears.