Elon Musk arrived in Washington on March 5, 2025, DC (photo of Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) for a meeting with the Republicans of the Senate in the US Capitol.
Washington -billionaire and former official of the Trump administration, Elon Musk, released a flood of social media posts that made the “large, beautiful bill” in the congress on Tuesday, but his criticism was largely ignored or pushed aside by Republican senators.
Musk wrote that the “massive, outrageous congress expenditure law filled with pork is a disgusting abomination” and told the GOP legislators who voted that they “made” wrong.
“In November next year we shoot all politicians who have betrayed the American people,” he wrote in a later contribution.
But Musk’s frustrations were largely flat.
The Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, dismissed Musk’s opposition and said that President Donald Trump is aware of his views on legislation and will still progress.
Muschus last week said He will continue to advise Trump, even though he was responsible for his official role as a special employee of the government employees, who supervised the dramatic spending cuts as head of the US Doge service.
The tax and expenditure package would reduce around 1.5 trillion dollars of federal financing for several programs in the next decade, including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The impartial budget office of the congress is expected to publish its complete analysis of the package on Wednesday, including the way, how Changes shortly before the invoice to the ground will affect state budgets and the access of people to security network programs.
“We have a job”
Leavitt’s comments came shortly before the Republican senators with questions about Musk’s statements after working lunch in Capitol Hill.
Many ignored Musk lobbying during tiny interviews and said that they do not expect his opposition to have the debate of the Senate about the comprehensive tax and expenditure rope packages that will take over this The house passed last month.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., said that he and Musk were clearly different opinions about the package, which it may be based on Musks reading the analysis from the impartial congress household office.
Thune said that he would expect the tax and output cuts contained in the package to lead to “significant growth”, which would lead to a reduction in the annual deficit.
“I hope that because he has the opportunity to continue to assess what this bill actually does, will come to a different conclusion,” said Thune. “Nevertheless, we have to do a job, the American people chose us. We have an agenda for which everyone fought, especially the President of the United States, and we will meet this agenda.”
Thune added that he expects the legislation to be “strengthened in different ways in the Senate”, although he did not describe what it would be.
“We will see what President Trump does”
The Senator of West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito, said that Musk is “entitled to his opinion” and that the GOP legislators are aware that he is “Frank”, but it will probably not influence that in the coming weeks.
“President Trump is the one who is the largest lawyer who will be the greatest influencer in relation to how the Senate deals with this vote,” said Capito. “So no matter what Elon Musk or anyone else says – and I don’t want to reduce him because I don’t think that is fair – it is still the second violin to President Trump. So we will see what President Trump is doing.”
The Senator of Arkansas, John Boozman, said that he does not expect Musk’s tweets to have a major impact on the internal GOP debates on the draft law.
“He is entitled to his opinion. I think there will be no difference,” said Boozman and added that the efforts to reduce expenses are already a central component of the GOP goals for the package.
The Senator of North Carolina, Thom Tillis, said that the tweets have no influence on what changes GOP senators propose to legislation.
“No,” said Tillis when he was asked about Musk’s general fluctuations.
The Senator of Ohio, Bernie Moreno, said that people who have concerns about legislation would have to give this chamber time to check what the house has said goodbye and find out what they will keep and what they will change.
“We have to find ourselves new and remember that this calculation should solve every problem on earth all the time,” said Moreno. “This draft law was about President Trump’s resources to secure our border, which was most of the choice. In order to avoid a tax increase of 4 trillion US dollars, the Americans very much take care of a process of reducing state expenses. That is what we do.”
“Donald Trump is our president, not Elon Musk”
Missouri’s senator, Josh Hawley, said that he had no major reaction to the social media posts while he laughed, except to say that Musk is “entitled to his opinion”.
Hawley said he did not expect Musk Lobby efforts to have an impact on how GOP senators change the law before sending it back into the house.
The Senator of West Virginia, Jim Justice, noticed that Musk was not the president when he was asked how the tweets could affect his advice on legislation.
“You like that or not, but you know that Donald Trump is our president, not Elon Musk,” said Justice.
“And really and really, I don’t know the disagreements that you may have or what you have in front of you,” added Justice. “I really respect Elon Musk and I think he did a great job and I am very, very, very satisfied with all the things he discovered. But with everything that said, I think we should all be our president.”
“We are all a little frustrated”
Alabama’s senator, Tommy Tuberville, said he hoped that Musks will attempts to influence the legislator, to more expenses than 1.5 trillion dollars in the house bill, although he did not say that he would object to the measure if this was not the case.
“Well, I think we are all a little frustrated. We don’t get as many cuts as we thought, but we could do it in the long run because we are not ready,” said Tuberville. “I think that was a little encouragement.”
The Senator of Kentucky, Rand Paul, said that he shares Musk’s skepticism about the effects of legislation on the annual federal deficit and increasing public debt.
But to the question How influential musk was In fluctuating republican senators, Paul stated that everyone who was against the legislative template is risking “the ire of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” and refers to the address of the White House.
Paul said that when he and Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who also expressed concerns about the way the package is written, can receive the support of two other GOP senators, then believe that they can start direct conversations with Trump.
“The president will negotiate if he has to,” said Paul. He doesn’t get if he doesn’t need it. “
