'Insane': Musk freaks out over Trump's megabill and blasts 'Porky Pig Party'
Elon Musk is staging a full-throttle freakout over President Donald Trump's megabill that's working its way through the Senate so the House can vote on it before the president's July 4 deadline.
The bill caused a very public breakup of Trump and Musk earlier this month when Musk posted to X, "I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination."
Monday, Musk posted, "It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!! Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people."
Monday afternoon, the Senate began its marathon voting session known as the "vote-a-rama." Still up in the air was the issue of cutting Medicaid, which House Republicans have vehemently lobbied against. According to Politico, "Dozens of House Republicans are scrambling behind the scenes to head off the deep Medicaid cuts in the Senate version of the party-line megabill that could pass as soon as tonight."
Trump has vowed that Medicaid would not be touched, but lawmakers have tried to figure out how to pay for his bill that includes tax cuts for the wealthy.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) can only afford to lose one more vote, after fiscal hawks Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) vowed to vote against the bill for adding trillions to the federal deficit. Tillis announced he would not seek re-election before launching a "scathing critique" of Trump's bill on Sunday.