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‘KILL BILL’: Elon Musk’s conservative evolution puts him at odds with Trump on key legislation

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Tech tycoon and former DOGE chief Elon Musk’s political evolution has shifted to the right after he jumped into the election fray as a staunch ally of President Donald Trump on the campaign trail and ultimately as the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Musk’s conservative genesis on the public stage has put him at odds with the president as he rails against the One Big Beautiful Bill, which Trump has touted as legislation that would translate into big tax breaks for Americans across the pay brackets and subsequently called on Republican lawmakers to swiftly pass it.
Musk, who is considered America’s wealthiest resident, is publicly criticizing the sweeping legislation just days after his departure from DOGE and the federal government. The «big beautiful bill» is currently making its way through the Senate and would fund Trump’s agenda, including strengthening border policies and ending taxes on overtime and tips.
«I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,» Musk posted to X Tuesday. «This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.»
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Elon Musk watches as President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. (AP/Evan Vucci)
He added the next day that the bill’s «immense level of overspending will drive America into debt slavery!» This was followed by a stream of X posts calling on Americans to encourage their lawmakers to «kill the bill» as well as a «KILL BILL» meme of the 2003 movie with the same name.
Musk has found himself aligned with members of the House Freedom Caucus, which is considered the most conservative voting bloc within the lower chamber, as well as staunch fiscal conservatives in the Senate, such as Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Wisconsin Sen. Ron. Johnson, who have publicly rebuked the legislation.
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Paul said Monday that its potential passage would increase the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, calling the bill a «terrible idea» that bucks conservative ideas.
The national debt currently stands at about $36 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office, an independent government agency, published a June report that the bill would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion throughout the next decade.
«I want the tax cuts to be permanent. But at the same time, I don’t wanna raise the debt ceiling five trillion,» Paul told CBS’ «Face the Nation» on Sunday. «The GOP will own the debt once they vote for this.»
Trump has admonished the criticism from fiscally conservative Republicans, arguing that Paul, for example, was on the verge of siding with the «Radical Left Democrats» and encouraging a 68% tax hike on Americans if he votes against the legislation.
«Rand will be playing right into the hands of the Democrats, and the GREAT people of Kentucky will never forgive him! The GROWTH we are experiencing, plus some cost cutting later on, will solve ALL problems. America will be greater than ever before!» Trump posted to Truth Social Saturday of Paul.

Sen. Rand Paul speaks during a nomination hearing with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Capitol Hill on April 3. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Musk, in an earlier public rebuke of the bill, remarked that he was «disappointed» it passed the House in May as it «undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.»
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Trump is aware of Musk’s views on the bill, but that the legislation still has the president’s full endorsement, when asked by Fox News’ Peter Doocy about Musk’s X post claiming the bill was a «disgusting abomination.»
«The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,» Leavitt said. «It doesn’t change the president’s opinion. This is one big, beautiful bill and he’s sticking to it.»
Leavitt also pushed back in the briefing Tuesday that the Congressional Budget Office’s prognostication for the bill is likely wrong, citing a history of missing the mark on budget predictions.
«The Congressional Budget Office has been historically wrong,» Leavitt said. «In fact, they predicted the Trump tax cuts from the president’s first term in 2017. Their prediction was wrong by half a trillion. Those tax cuts had nearly a half trillion dollars more of revenue than the Congressional Budget Office scored. And I would also point out, I don’t think many people know this, there hasn’t been a single staffer in the entire Congressional Budget Office that has contributed to a Republican since the year 2000. But guess what? There have been many staffers within the Congressional Budget Office who have contributed to Democrat candidates and politicians every single cycle.»
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also slammed the report for employing static scoring as opposed to dynamic scoring, which in «layman’s terms is they don’t give us any credit for the extraordinary economic growth that will be spurred along by this bill.»
Static scoring evaluates the fiscal impact of a policy change without considering how the change will affect the economy overall, while dynamic scoring broadens the scope of a study to include how a policy change would affect the economy.
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A White House official told Fox News Digital that Musk and Trump have historically seen eye-to-eye on political issues more than they differ, adding they continue to share many political views when asked if Musk has gone further to the right than Trump since his work within the administration.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt listens during a briefing with reporters at the White House, on May 9. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
Trump spoke publicly about Musk’s criticisms Thursday from the Oval Office during a meeting with the chancellor of Germany, remarking he was «disappointed» with Musk’s rebukes.
«I’m very disappointed, because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people,» Trump said in the Oval Office. «He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we’re going to have to cut the EV mandate, because that’s billions and billions of dollars, and it really is unfair.»
«Elon and I had a great relationship,» Trump added. «I don’t know if we will anymore.»
Musk’s leadership of DOGE came to an official end May 28 as his time as a special government employee ran dry of its 130 predetermined days. While in the role, Musk became a common target of liberal ire as he led efforts to remove fraud, corruption and overspending from federal departments and agencies across the government, which included cutting government programs and mass layoffs.
All in, the Department of Government Efficiency touts that it has saved an estimated $180 billion through initiatives such as grant or contract cancellations, workforce reductions or stamping out fraud. Musk’s efforts on DOGE have been celebrated by conservatives and Republicans, who frequently campaign on cutting government fat.
«It is time to cut red tape, hold the unchecked federal workforce accountable, ensure programs are efficient, & work with @DOGE to tackle waste, fraud, & abuse,» House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., Comer posted on X in December 2024 ahead of DOGE’s official launch.
«Iowans elected me with a mandate to cut Washington’s pork!» Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said in December 2024. «From billion-dollar boondoggles to welfare for politicians and trillion-dollar slush funds, my decade-long investigations have exposed levels of abuse that are almost too insane to believe.»
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POLITICAL SHIFT
The tech billionaire behind Tesla and Space X previously described himself as a Democrat and centrist before making a public political shift to the right amid Trump’s run for the presidency and inauguration – including repeatedly taking stances that fall in line with conservative ideology.
Musk endorsed Trump for the presidency in July 2024, after Trump faced his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. He later joined the political fray through campaign events promoting Trump’s candidacy in key battleground states.
Before Trump’s win, Musk railed from the campaign trail that the federal government had become bloated with overspending and red tape that he said hampers private sector innovation.

Elon Musk gestures as he steps on stage during a rally for former President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York, Oct. 27, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
«Tomorrow, I will tell the story of how SpaceX was forced by the government to kidnap seals, put earphones on them and play sonic boom sounds to see if they seemed upset,» Musk posted to X in October 2024, teasing he would elaborate on his government overregulation experiences from a campaign event.
Trump touted during the election cycle that Musk would likely serve as his «Secretary of Cost-Cutting» if he won re-election, teeing up fanfare around Musk’s anticipated efforts to take a hatchet to the federal government’s budget.
Musk’s political evolution, most notably when it comes to fiscal issues, followed the tech tycoon touting in 2018 on X, «True socialism seeks greatest good for all.»
He added in 2020 that «socially,» he is «very liberal,» continuing that he is «economically right of center, maybe, or center,» the New York Times previously reported.
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In addition to slamming the «big beautiful bill» in recent days, Musk has posted a handful of X messages celebrating free market champion Milton Friedman and beloved conservative economist Thomas Sowell.
As Trump’s tariff policies were rolled out in April, Musk posted a video clip of Friedman explaining that an item as simple as a pencil is the result of free market economics and supply chains across the world. Musk shared the video with no caption.
«Literally thousands of people cooperated to make this pencil,» Friedman, who died in 2006, was seen saying in the video. «People who don’t speak the same language, who practice different religions, who might hate one another if they ever met. When you go down the store and buy this pencil, you are, in effect, trading a few minutes of your time for a few seconds of the time of all those thousands of people.»

President Donald Trump listens to a question during an event in the Oval Office of the White House, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
«The operation of the free market is so essential, not only to promote productive efficiency, but even more to foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world,» he said.
Musk also recently shared a quote from Sowell on the history of slavery in the U.S.
«It’s one of many evils that the Left tries to localize when it’s a universal evil,’» Sowell was seen saying in a video post on X that was reshared by Musk on Jan. 11 with the caption «True.»
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Musk also doubled down on strong endorsements of the Second Amendment while on the campaign trail, posting on X in October 2024 that «tyrannical government» works to take guns from citizens in an effort to snuff out free speech.
«The right to bear arms is there to protect free speech and stop a tyrannical government from taking your rights away! That’s why the first thing that all tyrants do is disarm the people, just like Chavez did when he was first elected. After that, no more real elections in Venezuela,» Musk posted to his X account in October 2024.

Elon Musk greets President Donald Trump as they attend the NCAA men’s wrestling championships in Philadelphia, March 22, 2025. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)
Musk had previously praised America’s Second Amendment, including in 2022 when he said he «strongly (believes) that the right to bear arms is an important safeguard against potential tyranny of government.»
His comments while on the campaign trail rallying support for Trump, however, found renewed praise among conservatives in 2024 as they found additional common ground with the tech billionaire.
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DOGE is still operating following Musk’s departure. The temporary cross-departmental organization will be dissolved on July 4, 2026, according to Trump’s executive order that established the organization in January.
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind and Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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Trump ally stands firm against ‘big, beautiful bill’ despite pressure: ‘It’ll completely backfire’

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EXCLUSIVE — One of the leading opponents of President Donald Trump’s «big, beautiful bill» declared not even the commander in chief will be able to deter him from speaking out against what he sees as a bill that falls short of Republicans’ goal of cutting government waste.
«It’ll completely backfire on him,» Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital of any attempts by Trump to sway him on the current legislation.
Johnson has become a prominent voice of opposition against the House GOP’s offering to the budget reconciliation process. Senate Republicans finally began the tedious process of parsing through the bill this week.
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Sen. Ron Johnson says not even President Trump can sway him on the «big, beautiful bill.» (Getty Images)
Lawmakers in the upper chamber, Johnson included, are determined to make changes to the bill, with most wanting to make reductions to Medicaid and food stamps more palatable. Trump has made it clear his bill must pass but has acknowledged the Senate will need to make a few changes.
Trump’s directive has been to deliver a bill that can survive the razor-thin majorities in both chambers.
Johnson, however, wants to see spending returned to pre-pandemic levels, cuts that are trillions of dollars deeper than what House Republicans could stomach. And he is ready to vote against the bill unless he sees the changes he wants.
And he believes that a pressure campaign from the president against him and other like-minded fiscal hawks will fail.
He said a better approach would be to work with lawmakers and fiscal hawks like him to gain a better understanding of the reality of the country’s fiscal situation, a reality that «is grim,» he said.
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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol after the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act May 22, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Johnson has been up front about his disdain for the bill but has so far avoided public retribution from Trump. In fact, the two have spoken twice this week, once on Monday and later during a Senate Finance Committee meeting at the White House Tuesday.
The lawmaker has told Trump he’s in Trump’s corner and that he wants «to see you succeed,» but he has been steadfast in his position that the bill does not go far enough to tackle the national debt.
And the debt continues to climb, nearing $37 trillion and counting, according to Fox News’ National Debt Tracker.
The House’s offering set a goal of $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade, which lawmakers in the lower chamber have pitched as a positive step forward to righting the country’s fiscal ship, an offering Johnson panned as falling drastically short of the GOP’s promises to cut deep into government spending.
«What’s so disappointing about what happened in the House is it was all rhetoric. It’s all slogans,» Johnson said. «They picked a number. Literally, they picked a number out of the air.»
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Johnson views this attempt at the budget reconciliation process as a rare opportunity to «do the hard things» when it comes to spending cuts, but others in the GOP have been more hesitant to cut as deep.
Johnson said a main reason Republicans have so far fallen short of meeting the moment for the most part is that lawmakers don’t understand just how much the federal government shovels out the door year in and year out.
The lawmaker recalled a moment roughly three years ago during a debate over another year-end omnibus spending bill, when each of the dozen appropriations bills is crammed into one, bloated package that is universally reviled and almost always passes.
He asked his colleagues if they really knew just how much the government spends, and no one «volunteered to answer.»
«Nobody knew. I mean, think of that. The largest financier in the world. We’re supposedly, in theory, the 535 members of the board of directors, and nobody knew,» he said. «Why would they? We never talked about it.»
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Johnson has been busy trying to better educate his colleagues, putting together his own charts and graphs that cut out the «noise,» like the latest nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report that found the legislation would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over a decade. The GOP has universally panned that projection.
«We can’t accept this as a new normal,» Johnson said. «We can’t accept — you can take pot shots of CBO, but you can’t deny that reality. [It] might be off a little bit, but that is the trajectory, and that’s undeniable.»
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Donald Trump militariza Los Ángeles para aplacar las protestas contra las redadas masivas de migrantes

Tropas de la Guardia Nacional comenzaron a llegar a Los Ángeles este domingo por orden del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump para controlar las protestas contra las redadas de inmigrantes que mantienen en vilo a la ciudad.
Tras su despliegue, se enfrentaron con manifestantes latinos en el centro de la ciudad. Según la prensa local, arrojaron gases lacrimógenos a una creciente multitud reunida frente al Centro de Detención Metropolitano.
Minutos después se escucharon nuevos estallidos mientras algunos manifestantes coreaban “váyanse a casa” y “qué vergüenza”. Agentes uniformados derribaron a una persona, mientras que otra parecía estar sangrando de la cabeza.
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Trump asumió el control federal de las fuerzas de seguridad del estado de California para desplegar soldados en la segunda ciudad más grande del país. Se trata de una medida nunca vista en las últimas décadas y considerada “deliberadamente provocadora” por el gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom.
La medida busca desplegar 2000 efectivos de la Guardia Nacional, una fuerza de reserva de las Fuerzas Armadas estadounidenses, después de protestas y enfrentamientos desatados a causa de una serie de redadas realizadas por las autoridades de inmigración, incluso en el Distrito de la Moda de Los Ángeles.
La situación escaló de tal manera que Tom Homan, el conocido como “zar de la frontera”, amenazó con arrestar a la alcaldesa de la ciudad, Karen Bass, y al gobernador Newsom, “si se exceden” en sus competencias.
“El gobernador de California y la alcaldesa de Los Ángeles podrían enfrentar arrestos si se exceden”, dijo Homan a la cadena NBC News. “Lo digo por cualquiera (…) Es un delito grave resguardar y ocultar a sabiendas a un inmigrante ilegal. Es un delito grave impedir que las fuerzas del orden hagan su trabajo”, advirtió.
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Unos 300 soldados fueron desplegados el domingo a lo largo y ancho de la ciudad, según el comando militar, mientras una “movilización masiva” de rechazo a las redadas contra inmigrantes fue convocada frente al Ayuntamiento.
En los dos últimos días agentes federales dispararon granadas aturdidoras y gases lacrimógenos contra una multitud movilizada en contra de las detenciones de decenas de migrantes en una ciudad con fuerte población latina.
Crece la tensión por protestas de migrantes en Los Ángeles (Foto: Reuters)
Según el director adjunto de la policía federal (FBI), Dan Bongino, varias personas fueron detenidas en Los Angeles y también en Nueva York.
La alcaldesa de Los Angeles dijo a un canal local que durante la noche fueron cometidos “actos de vandalismo”, pero sostuvo que la situación “está bajo control”.
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El presidente republicano de la Cámara de Representantes, Mike Johnson, respaldó la posibilidad de recurrir a los marines en servicio activo, además de a la Guardia Nacional, una eventualidad evocada el sábado por el secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth.
Las autoridades federales “quieren un espectáculo. No se lo den. Nunca usen la violencia. Hablen pacíficamente”, escribió Newsom en X el sábado por la noche. Además, calificó de “desquiciada” la amenaza de Hegseth.
Incendios y gases lacrimógenos
Las redadas del Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) en otras ciudades estadounidenses desencadenaron protestas en los últimos meses, pero los disturbios de Los Ángeles son los más grandes y prolongados contra las políticas de la administración Trump hasta la fecha.
Según informes de agencias de noticias internacionales, hubo incendios y fuegos artificiales para iluminar las calles durante los enfrentamientos del viernes y el sábado, mientras un manifestante que sostenía una bandera mexicana estaba frente a un automóvil quemado pintado con un eslogan contra el ICE, encargado de las redadas.
“Depende de nosotros defender a nuestra gente”, dijo una residente de Los Ángeles cuyos padres son inmigrantes. “No importa que nos hieran o nos gaseen. (…) No nos pararán nunca. Todo lo que nos queda es nuestra voz”, añadió.
Efectivos de la Guardia Nacional en Los Ángeles el 8 de junio del 2025. (AP foto/Eric Thayer)
Imágenes de la cadena de televisión local KABC mostraban esta mañana a miembros de la Guardia Nacional desplegados cerca del Ayuntamiento de Los Ángeles antes de llegar a un edificio federal, mientras sacaban equipamiento de sus vehículos.
Además, también captó a tropas a lo largo de la calle Alameda, en el centro de Los Ángeles, y en la localidad de Paramount, de mayoría latina y donde hubo enfrentamientos más intensos.
La Guardia Nacional, una fuerza militar de reserva, es usada en situaciones de emergencia como desastres naturales y, ocasionalmente, en casos de disturbios civiles, pero casi siempre con el consentimiento de las autoridades locales. Es la primera vez desde 1965 que un presidente despliega ese cuerpo sin la solicitud de un gobernador, según publicó en X el exdirector de Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth.
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En tanto, Trump culpó este domingo a la “izquierda radical” de estar detrás de los disturbios en la ‘Ciudad de las Estrellas’.
“Estas protestas de la izquierda radical, por instigadores y a menudo alborotadores pagados, no serán toleradas. Además, a partir de ahora, no se permitirá el uso de máscaras en las protestas. ¿Qué tiene que ocultar esta gente y por qué? Una vez más, ¡gracias a la Guardia Nacional por el trabajo bien hecho!”, indicó el mandatario.
Durante la noche, el área metropolitana de Los Ángeles se mantuvo relativamente tranquila en comparación con las protestas que comenzaron el viernes después de que funcionarios federales realizaran redadas migratorias en el condado de Los Ángeles.
Tensión en Los Ángeles tras protestas contra las masivas redadas de migrantes (Foto: Reuters/Barbara Davidson)
La madrugada del domingo, la Policía reportó que detuvo a varias personas tras declarar una reunión en el centro de Los Ángeles como asamblea ilegal. En Paramount, tres personas acusadas de agredir a agentes fueron arrestadas durante la noche.
El sábado se produjeron enfrentamientos cerca de un Home Depot en la propia Paramount, al sur de Los Ángeles, donde agentes federales se encontraban en una oficina cercana del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional.
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Se registraron múltiples personas heridas entre los manifestantes golpeados por balas de goma y las granadas. Las autoridades utilizaron tácticas militares para dispersar a los manifestantes y poder sacar a los detenidos.
La tensión era alta después de una serie de redadas realizadas por las autoridades de inmigración el día anterior, incluso en el Distrito de la Moda de Los Ángeles. El recuento de arrestos de inmigrantes en una semana en la ciudad superaba los 100 detenidos.
(Con información de AFP y EFE)
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