Fetterman disses Dems for suddenly embracing Musk amid Trump fallout

Maverick Democratic Sen. John Fetterman dissed members of his ain enactment Thursday for abruptly backing Elon Musk during his feud with President Donald Trump. 

Democrats person recovered an unlikely state successful Musk this week, fixed his nationalist rejection of Trump's "big, beauteous bill" and a consequent telephone for Trump's impeachment. 

The president has championed the authorities arsenic fulfilling his cardinal run promises, including borderline security, American vigor accumulation and taxation cuts. 

The megabill is nether information by some a Republican-led White House and Congress. But it has faced hiccups successful the Senate this week arsenic Republicans, including immoderate who helped walk the measure done the House, person indicated they bash not enactment the measure successful its existent form. Every House Democrat voted against the bill. 

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., (left) said Democrats should marque up their minds astir Elon Musk.  (Reuters; Getty Images)

The nationalist indebtedness is astatine $36,214,501,400,213.64 arsenic of June 5, according to the latest numbers published by the Treasury Department.

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Amid the setbacks, Musk has thrown a wrench into the Republican's reconciliation process done a bid of fiery posts connected X, the level helium bought successful 2022. And Democrats were speedy to coalesce down Musk's rejection of the bill, seizing connected the GOP's intraparty struggle contempt their outright rejection of Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) this year. 

In the archetypal of respective posts targeting the bill, and past Trump directly, Musk said, "I’m sorry, but I conscionable can’t basal it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending measure is simply a disgusting abomination. Shame connected those who voted for it: you cognize you did wrong. You cognize it."

Fetterman, who has built a estimation for bucking his ain enactment connected issues similar migration and enactment for Israel, was speedy to telephone retired the inconsistency of his chap Democrats Thursday. 

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., talks with a newsman aft a Senate luncheon astatine the U.S. Capitol March 11, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"The Dems, we've been dumping each implicit Musk and vandalizing Teslas oregon whatever, and now, suddenly, we mightiness beryllium much backmost into him," Fetterman said. 

Democrats began staging protests astatine Tesla dealerships aboriginal into Trump's 2nd term. Tesla vehicles and dealerships person besides been targeted this twelvemonth successful a drawstring of convulsive attacks against the company, different concern owned by Musk. Trump's Justice Department labeled the attacks "domestic terrorism."

And portion the Pennsylvania Democrat said Musk is close for rejecting Trump's megabill, Fetterman said Thursday Democrats person to determine what they deliberation of Musk and instrumentality with it. 

Elon Musk holds the cardinal to the White House, a acquisition helium received from President Donald Trump, astatine a property league successful the Oval Office astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., May 30, 2025.  (Reuters/Nathan Howard)

"It wasn't that agelong agone that Tesla was similar the virtue-signaling benignant of accessory for Dems," Fetterman said. "I would ne'er privation to vandalize Teslas, and the ‘big, beauteous bill’ is incorrect for America. So, from my perspective, I've conscionable tried to beryllium accordant done that."

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., was 1 Democrat who acknowledged this week that Democrats should enactment with Musk connected their shared nonsubjective to halt Trump's "big, beauteous bill."

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And GOP Rep. Tim Burchett piled connected the disapproval of Democrats' inconsistencies, telling Fox News Digital, "It's benignant of ironic to maine that, a week ago, the Democrats hated Elon Musk's guts … and present they're basing everything they person connected him."

Fox News Channel's Chad Pergram and Fox News Media's Dan Scully contributed to this report.