Elon Musk, in some cases using President Donald Trump’s own long-ago words against him, on Thursday rolled a barrage of posts on his social media company X to boost his fight against passage of the president’s “big beautiful bill” legislation in the Senate.
The tech billionaire, who until recently was leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, launched his tweets by pulling out a Trump tweet posted in 2013, years before the president first took office, when Trump pushed back against Republicans who raised the debt ceiling.
“Wise words,” Musk posted, along with a tweet Trump had posted on Jan. 23, 2013, in which he’d written that “I cannot believe the Republicans are extending the debt ceiling—I am a Republican & I am embarrassed!”
Musk also pulled out a tweet Trump had posted on July 31, 2012, when Trump had posted that “No member of Congress should be eligible for re-election if our country’s budget is not balanced—deficits not allowed!”
“I couldn’t agree more!” Musk said in response.
Further, Musk retweeted from an account that listed several of Trump’s old tweets from before his presidency, when he had railed against then-President Barack Obama and the national debt.
“Where is this guy today??” Musk said.
Musk also retweeted several people who are speaking out against the bill, including Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., shown in an interview saying that he was “all in for more cuts to the bill. It’s big, but it’s not beautiful yet. The Senate’s job is to make the bill better before sending it back to us. The House’s job is to pass DOGE rescissions and EO codification bills that are collecting dust.”
Musk further posted a tweet from Doge Designer, which announced that the U.S. was inching toward $37 trillion in national debt.
“Keep the good, remove the bad,” Musk said in another post, adding later a tweet calling for a “Slim Beautiful Bill for the win.”
Musk’s slams come a day after he used his social media site to urge Americans to “kill the bill.”
Trump has pushed for the legislation that he says will support the agenda he promised to enact while campaigning for his second term in office.
“Call your Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL,” Musk wrote in that post.
The legislation, which only narrowly passed the House, is now facing a tough fight for passage in the Senate, where a number of Republicans, like Musk, say they are concerned that the bill, as written, does not cut enough spending.
Other Republicans in the chamber say they are concerned about the bill’s reforms to Medicaid.
“No one who actually reads the bill should be able to stomach it,” Musk wrote Wednesday on X.
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