The Tesla CEO was responding to a draft of the Senate bill.
Tesla CEO and former White House special government employee Elon Musk again criticized the Republican Party and the President Donald Trump-backed spending package that’s currently being considered in the Senate, weeks after he engaged in a public war of words with the president.
“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote in a Saturday post on X, the social media company that he owns.
The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2025
Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future. https://t.co/TZ9w1g7zHF
Describing the bill as “utterly insane and destructive,” Musk argued that it would give “handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future” in a post published hours before the Senate held a key vote that advanced the package.
He was responding to a draft of the Senate bill that raises taxes on solar and wind projects that haven’t recently started construction, while also requiring them not use any Chinese-made materials. It also adds a tax on wind and solar projects.
Musk wrote in a separate post that “polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party.”
Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party pic.twitter.com/HJwKZ9g4tu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2025
In a Fox News interview aired on Sunday, Trump called Musk a “wonderful guy” and added that “he’s going to do well always.”
The president also noted that he doesn’t believe that every consumer wants to purchase an electric car, which Tesla manufactures, and doesn’t believe there should be mandates around such products.
Tesla is the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, and Musk has long been a proponent of alternative sources of energy such as solar and wind.
Previously, Trump has suggested that Musk was upset with him because of the government’s decision to end subsidies for his companies and for not choosing Jared Isaacman to head NASA.
Weeks ago, Musk had described the bill as a “disgusting abomination” and called on lawmakers to “KILL the BILL,” leading to a public spat with Trump.
“This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” he wrote at the time.
