- Elon Musk is threatening to defeat politicians who vote for Trump’s megabill.
- “They will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” he wrote.
- Musk previously said he would scale back his political spending.
Elon Musk is back on a tear against President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” — and is threatening to defeat politicians who vote for it in future primaries.
“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame,” Musk wrote on X on Monday afternoon. “And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”
Musk, who previously said he would scale back his political spending, could theoretically use his immense wealth to fund primary challengers in districts across the country.
A spokesman for America PAC, the tech titan’s main super PAC, declined to comment. Musk routed roughly $240 million through the PAC last year, the vast majority of it in support of Trump’s presidential bid.
Musk also revived his call for a new political party, writing in an earlier post that because the bill increases the debt ceiling, “we live in a one-party country — the PORKY PIG PARTY!!”
Since his public feud with Trump earlier this month, Musk has been relatively quiet on the bill. That changed over the weekend, when Musk called the bill “utterly insane” in a post on X.
The tech titan has opposed the bill because it would add trillions of dollars to the deficit and eliminate federal subsidies for renewable energy projects.
Musk’s missive on Monday — issued just hours before the Senate was set to vote on final passage of the bill — was his starkest political threat yet against Republicans who support it.
A version of the bill passed the House in May, but it will have to clear the lower chamber once again. Lawmakers hope to get the bill to Trump’s desk by July 4.
