Domestic policy bill gets lambasted: "The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!" wrote Elon Musk on X, referring to the version drafted by Senate Republicans.
This is basically Groundhog Day: The last time Musk critiqued his former BFFs in the Trump administration, it was over…the House version of the same bill (and its impact on the deficit). Things got dirty: Musk suggested that Trump was implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein files, while Trump basically said that Musk is a drug addict.
On Saturday, the newer version of the legislation "cleared a key procedural vote, 51–49," per CNN. "Trump has demanded to sign the bill on the Fourth of July, but the measure must still go back to the House if it passes the Senate. Saturday's vote allows the Senate to begin debating Trump's bill, teeing up a final passage vote in that chamber as soon as Monday." Holdouts will need to be dealt with: Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky both broke with their party and voted against the bill, but for different reasons—Paul because it raises the debt ceiling, and Tillis because he thinks the cuts to Medicaid are too steep.
