Elon Musk wants Andy Harris to block Trump’s MAGA spending bill — or else

When Elon Musk set his sights on Maryland in early 2025, his actions took the form of DOGE-inflicted federal job losses, slashed funding, and takeovers of Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare.

Now he wants Maryland’s only Republican representative in Congress, Andy Harris, to meet his demands or lose his seat.

With Musk now out of the government, and he and President Donald Trump on the outs, Musk has turned his fire on Trump and the Republicans who are helping pass his spending bill in Congress. According to his posts on X, the social media platform he owns, Musk vows to create a third political party if the bill is passed and to do everything in his power to make sure the Republican members of Congress who voted for it lose their next elections.

“If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” Musk wrote in one post on Monday.

“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!” he wrote in another post the same day. “And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”

One of Musk’s biggest issues with the bill involves the debt ceiling increase, which will be the largest in history. In another post, he singled out Freedom Caucus leaders Harris and Texas’s Chip Roy, asking “How can you call yourself the Freedom Caucus if you vote for a DEBT SLAVERY bill with the biggest debt ceiling increase in history? @RepAndyHarrisMD @chiproytx”. The two House Republicans position themselves as leading budget-cutters.

On Fox News, “America Reports” co-anchor John Roberts asked Harris about Musk’s call-out, and Harris agreed with Musk, saying he would not vote for the bill as it is right now.

“Well, that’s exactly why a group of us are not going to vote to advance the bill until we iron out some of the deficit problems,” Harris said. “Mr. Musk is right that we cannot sustain these deficits. He understands finances. He understands debts and deficits, and we have to make further progress, and I believe the Freedom Caucus will take the lead in making that further progress.”

Harris did not vote to pass the bill out of the House the first time, either. He had planned to vote “No” because of the deficit increase, but after pressure from Trump, the Maryland congressman voted “Present.” The Senate version passed only because Vice President J.D. Vance broke the tie.

The bill contains $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, which will cause up to 20 million people to lose their health care coverage. In a social media post, Vance called that fact “minutiae” compared to the amount of money ICE will now receive.

“Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions,” Vance wrote on X.

The bill is now in the House of Representatives. To find your representatives’s phone number, click this link.