Elon Musk's push against President Trump's tax and spending bill stands to cause Republicans voicing concern about increasing the nation’s debt to get louder. “Is this the moment where Republicans and everyone in the country start to understand the threat and the scale of financing this debt?

“This spending bill contains the largest increase in the debt ceiling in US history! It is the Debt Slavery Bill,” Musk, who ranks No. 1 on Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, posted on X on Wednesday. “I think a bill can be big or it could be beautiful. I don't know if it could be both.”