{"id":25095,"date":"2025-06-29T07:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=25095"},"modified":"2025-06-29T07:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:45:46","slug":"elon-musk-tears-apart-trumps-utterly-deceitful-big-beautiful-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=25095","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Elon Musk Tears Apart Trump&#8217;s Utterly Deceitful &#8216;Big Beautiful Bill&#8217;<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25096\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-29-at-7.35.58-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-29-at-7.35.58-AM.png 492w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-29-at-7.35.58-AM-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-29-at-7.35.58-AM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Billionaire Elon Musk launched a renewed attack on US President Donald Trump\u2019s budget bill on Saturday, calling it\u00a0<em>\u201cutterly insane\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and warning that it would hurl America into\u00a0<em>\u201cdebt slavery\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and destroy millions of jobs. The dispute between the two men who were once close allies turned ugly earlier in June over Trump\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cbig, beautiful\u201d<\/em>\u00a0tax and spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla and SpaceX CEO\u2019s outburst came hours before Senate Republicans narrowly advanced the bill in a 51-49 procedural vote, with Vice President J.D. Vance on standby to break a potential tie.<\/p>\n<p>Musk took to X to condemn the legislation, writing,\u00a0<em>\u201cThe latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet lazyloaded\" data-twitter=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1751196878978114426=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TZ9w1g7zHF\">https:\/\/t.co\/TZ9w1g7zHF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1939051424995786839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a series of posts, he accused the bill of favoring\u00a0<em>\u201cindustries of the past\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 likely a jab at fossil fuel subsidies \u2013 while undermining future-focused sectors like renewable energy and tech.<\/p>\n<p>Musk claimed that the bill\u2019s $5 trillion debt ceiling hike would put the US in the\u00a0<em>\u201cfast lane to debt slavery,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0citing polling data that suggests GOP voters oppose the bill over fiscal concerns.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk criticized the bill\u2019s deficit impact, calling it a\u00a0<em>\u201cdisgusting abomination.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump retaliated by accusing Musk of having sour grapes over lost electric vehicle subsidies \u2013 a reference to federal incentives that had benefited Tesla. Musk escalated by insinuating that Trump had ties to late financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, while Trump considered cutting SpaceX contracts. Later, Musk apologized, and Trump suggested that he could forgive him.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/620742-musk-trump-budget-bill-insane\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/620742-musk-trump-budget-bill-insane\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}