Left: Elon Musk looks on during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 2025; Right: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 (Left: ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images; Right: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Massie, who was one of the two House Republicans who voted against the measure, made the comments when retweeting a post in which Musk had urged people to call their lawmakers about the proposal. "Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL," Musk declared in the post.
In another tweet on Wednesday, Musk asserted, "No one who actually reads the bill should be able to stomach it."
America's national debt is more than $36 trillion.
Musk is sounding the alarm about the country's debt problem and profligate spending.
"America is in the fast lane to debt slavery," he warned in a post on X.
ELON MUSK WARNS EXCESSIVE SPENDING WILL PLUNGE US ‘INTO DEBT SLAVERY’
Massie, a serious fiscal hawk, draws attention to the nation's fiscal fecklessness by wearing a small debt clock.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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