{"id":12359,"date":"2025-06-30T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12359"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:00:19","slug":"musk-threatens-to-primary-members-of-congress-who-vote-for-trumps-megabill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12359","title":{"rendered":"Musk threatens to primary members of Congress who vote for Trump&#8217;s megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, on Monday said he would back challengers to members of Congress who vote for President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big, beautiful bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Musk broke his short-lived X silence about the bill over the weekend, unloading on it for being \u201cutterly insane.\u201d On Monday, Musk criticized \u201cevery member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history,\u201d vowing that \u201cthey will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, on Monday said he would back challengers to members of Congress who vote for President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big, beautiful bill.&#8221; Musk broke his short-lived X silence about the bill over the weekend, unloading on it for being \u201cutterly insane.\u201d On Monday, Musk criticized \u201cevery member of Congress who campaigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12361,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359\/revisions\/12361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}