Having spent the past five months taking a chainsaw to America’s bureaucracy, Musk is now using a flamethrower to attack Trump and the Republicans on Capitol Hill who support the President’s tax and spending proposals. The assault began on Tuesday, with a Musk message on X that described Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” (that is its actual name) as a “massive, outrageous… disgusting abomination”.
Publicly, the White House pretended to be unfazed by Musk’s treachery. “The President already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill”, said press secretary Karoline Leavitt, brushing off the brouhaha. “It doesn’t change the president’s opinion. This is one big, beautiful Bill and he’s sticking to it”, she maintained.
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But whether Elon is “terribly wrong” or not, he is also terribly influential. The White House knows that it will only take the defection of four Senate Republicans to derail the Bill, and plunge the President’s economic policy into further crisis. The tax-and-spending measures are the flip side of Trump’s trade war, designed to stimulate the economy at a time when tariffs will – as even the White House now admits – cause supply chain shortages and price rises across the country.
Writing on X, Congressman Jack Kimble of California sought on Tuesday to beg his constituents’ forgiveness for backing the Bill in its original form. “Full transparency”, he wrote. “I did not know that the Big Beautiful Bill was a real budget and would be used to determine spending levels”. His dubious claim of ignorance notwithstanding, Trump is relying on a Republican majority of just five seats in the House. It will only take a handful of lawmakers in the chamber to imperil his proposals there as well.
Only on Friday, during an Oval Office farewell ceremony for an erratically behaving Musk, Trump insisted that his charge was “not really leaving” the administration and would be “back and forth” between his corporate empire and the White House. Even then, there were tensions between the two men over Trump’s proposals, and the White House event was designed as a display of unity between the two of them.
Days later, trench warfare is underway. Musk may have left Trump’s government, but he could still get to seal its fate.
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