'He's not a big factor': Trump's Senate allies dismiss Elon Musk's calls to 'kill the bill'

Elon Musk’s diatribe against President Donald Trump's "one big, beauteous bill" continued Wednesday arsenic Senate Republicans embarked connected their ain people to tweak and reshape the gargantuan legislative package.

The erstwhile caput of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rehashed a akin talking constituent from his takedown of a erstwhile House GOP authorities backing measure successful December, which, aft his input, was gutted and reworked.

The nation’s indebtedness sits astatine implicit $36 trillion, according to FOX Business' National Debt Tracker.

GOP SENATORS EXPRESS 'CONCERNS,' 'SKEPTICISM' OVER TRUMP'S SPENDING BILL AFTER MUSK RANT

Elon Musk, left, and President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

"Call your Senator, Call your Congressman," Musk said among a flurry of posts connected X. "Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL."

Though Musk’s continued tirade against the measure sent House Republicans into a tizzy, connected the different broadside of the Capitol, senators were engaged hashing retired the finer points of the legislation.

This clip around, Musk, who conscionable ended his four-month tenure arsenic a peculiar authorities worker rooting retired waste, fraud and abuse, whitethorn not person the aforesaid level of impact, fixed that senators privation their accidental to signifier the bill.

"I mean, if Elon was going to springiness maine proposal connected however to get to the moon, I'd listen," said Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D. "You know, if helium was going to springiness maine proposal connected however to rise respective cardinal dollars from different billionaires, I'd listen."

"But… helium doesn't govern, you know, and so, to beryllium honest, Elon, he's not that large a factor," helium continued. "I cognize he's a glamorous benignant of celebrity, but he's not a large factor."

ELON MUSK WARPATH AGAINST TRUMP'S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ RATTLES HOUSE GOP

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, right, accompanied by President Donald Trump, speaks to members of the media arsenic they depart a House Republican gathering astatine the U.S. Capitol connected May 20, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Cramer’s comments came aft Senate Republicans heard from the chairs of the Senate Banking, Armed Services and Commerce committees connected however they would attack their respective portions of the megabill successful a closed-door meeting.

After that meeting, members of the Senate Finance Committee, which volition grip the taxation information of the package, met with Trump aboriginal to enactment up enactment for the taxation package.

Sen. Roger Marshall, R.-Kan., said that the president’s main connection during the gathering was to "pass the damn bill" with arsenic fewer changes arsenic possible. When asked if Trump seemed acrophobic astir Musk’s interaction connected the bill’s fate, the lawmaker said "absolutely not."  

"It was astir laugh— much of a laughing speech for 30 seconds," helium said. "It was precise overmuch successful jest and laughing, and I deliberation helium said thing affirmative astir Elon, appreciating what helium did for the country."

ELON MUSK POSTS ‘KILL BILL’ MEME IN LATEST PUSH TO NIX TRUMP’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

House Speaker Mike Johnson, left, said helium was "surprised" by Elon Musk's disapproval of the "big, beauteous bill." (Associated Press)

Congressional Republicans mean to usage the fund reconciliation process to skirt the Senate filibuster, meaning they bash not request Senate Democrats to walk the package. However, they bash request astatine slightest 51 Senate Republicans to get connected board.

The Senate’s changeable astatine tinkering with the reconciliation bundle comes aft months of deliberations and negotiations successful the House that culminated successful a bundle that Trump has thrown his afloat enactment behind.

Some lawmakers privation higher spending cuts to the tune of $2 trillion, others privation a afloat rollback to pre-pandemic spending. Then determination are pockets of absorption solidifying astir cuts to Medicaid and greenish vigor taxation recognition provisions baked into the House’s offering.

Among the greenish vigor provisions connected the chopping artifact are electrical conveyance taxation credits. Speculation has swirled that their projected demise could beryllium the driving force, successful part, down Musk’s choler toward the bill.

"Any legislator with a encephalon sees Elon’s comments for what they are, a CEO disquieted astir losing business," a Senate Republican root told Fox News Digital. "The lone crushed he’s causing a fuss is due to the fact that we’re getting escaped of pork that benefits his electrical car company."

Musk had been pushing for deeper spending cuts until his caller request that the measure beryllium nuked. Currently, the House GOP’s offering sets a extremity of $1.5 trillion successful spending cuts implicit the adjacent decennary that, coupled with expected growth, would assistance offset the astir $4 trillion terms tag of making the president’s first-term taxation cuts permanent.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, engaged with immoderate of Musk’s posts connected Tuesday and appeared to hold with the tech billionaire’s presumption that the measure had to spell further to chopped spending.

"I deliberation astir of what he's saying is helium would similar it to bash much and beryllium much assertive to effort to code the indebtedness and shortage problem," Lee said.

However, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recovered successful its latest study that the measure would lone chopped $1.3 trillion, trim revenues by astir $3.7 trillion and adhd successful the vicinity of $2.4 trillion to the deficit.

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Some lawmakers who had recovered communal crushed with Musk’s earlier choler with the "big, beauteous bill" inactive recovered a communal state connected the 2nd time of his rant.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., reiterated to Fox News Digital that helium shared Musk’s "skepticism" of the bill. He would not accidental whether helium agreed that legislature Republicans should commencement from scratch, but noted that his main objection to the measure was a program to summation the nation’s indebtedness bounds by $5 trillion.

"My main extremity is to say, instrumentality the indebtedness ceiling and marque it a abstracted vote, and past ballot connected a abstracted bill, and past there's inactive a request for little spending," helium said. "But I would beryllium precise unfastened to supporting the measure if we had much spending cuts and the indebtedness ceiling was a abstracted vote."