Elon Musk speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

On Thursday, Elon Musk fired a barrage of X posts bashing President Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues for pushing through the Big Beautiful Bill, including multiple congressmen from the Heartland.

Despite spending months financially boosting the Republican Party and spearheading the administration’s disastrous efforts to cut federal jobs, programs and research, Musk reversed course in dramatic fashion on his X platform.

Musk has been a vocal opponent of the GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” the budget bill which is set to engage another massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich. But Musk has taken issue with the bill’s projected $2-4 trillion increase to the federal deficit over the next decade, which is in stark contrast to the cuts Musk oversaw when he worked under Trump until last week.

In addition to Trump, Musk took aim at Republican leaders in Congress who are working to pass the bill, despite routinely decrying increases to the federal deficit for years. Musk questioned Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) for his role in the bill despite complaining about the national deficit in a speech from 2020.

Musk also blasted the 215 Republicans in Congress that voted for the bill despite not knowing its contents. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) suspended rules that would have given lawmakers time to read the 1,000+ page bill. Some members of Congress, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE), have admitted they did not read the full text before voting for it.

Johnson responded to Musk’s criticism of him pushing a bill that is projected to increase the national debt by over $2 trillion over 10 years with a post saying he’s still “the same CONSISTENT Mike Johnson who has ALWAYS supported the America First Agenda.”

During Musk’s public breakup with Trump, he accused the president of being listed in the Jeffrey Epstein files and hiding their contents. In response, Trump said his behavior was because the budget bill ended electric vehicle subsidies Musk benefitted from, and he pledged to cut “Billions and Billions of Dollars” in government contracts with the billionaire.

Under Trump, Musk oversaw the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which tried and failed to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget.