Just days after he left his powerful position as one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, Elon Musk is orchestrating a pressure campaign to sink the mammoth tax and spending package that is the centerpiece of the president’s policy agenda.
Musk used X, his social media site, on Wednesday to implore Americans to call Congress and urge it to “ kill” the bill that Trump hails as “big” and “beautiful.”
He also urged lawmakers to rewrite the bill from scratch, putting him squarely at odds with Trump, who had invited him into Cabinet meetings and empowered him to dismantle whole agencies and shrink the government workforce.
The bill, which has already passed the House, faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, where just four Republican defections would spell defeat.
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