‘You Supported It’: AOC Shreds Elon Musk As He Fumes Over Losing EV Tax Credits In War With Trump
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted Elon Musk after the tech mogul sharply broke with President Donald Trump on Thursday, with the pair throwing shots at one another over the president’s current budget bill.
At a White House meeting on Thursday, Trump was asked about Musk’s recent criticism of his “Big Beautiful Bill” and the president said he was “disappointed” in Musk. Trump suggested Musk was aware of everything in the bill while he was completing his work as a special government employee with DOGE. Musk denied this, while Trump suggested subsidies for electric vehicles being cut may be part of Musk’s frustration with the bill.
Musk has echoed other Republican critics like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in arguing that Trump’s bill raises the debt ceiling and will therefore more than likely only add to the deficit. The president claims potential revenue from tariffs would create a surplus.
“Whatever,” Musk posted to X on Thursday as part of a series of responses to Trump’s criticism. “Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill. In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful. Everyone knows this! Either you get a big and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill. Slim and beautiful is the way.”
Ocasio-Cortez offered no sympathy to the billionaire, telling him he was “warned” about Trump and Republicans from the beginning of him jumping headfirst into politics.
“We warned at every step that GOP planned to do this. They SAID so. But y’all decided bullying trans people was more important than sensible energy policy,” the congresswoman wrote. “Republicans are fossil fuel extremists. They are owned by oil & gas and committed to ending EV/solar/etc. You supported it.”
She asked what exactly Musk “expected” in regards to Republicans and their relationship to electric vehicles versus fossil fuels.
“I am literally in a bill markup TODAY where Republicans are working to define “reliable” energy standards to *only* allow oil/gas/coal. They’re doing it as we speak!” she wrote. “I genuinely do not know what else you expected. They campaigned against renewable energy the whole time.”
In a series of Thursday posts, Musk argued Trump would have lost the 2024 presidential election without his support and he even suggested the creation of a third political party.
