Elon Musk, in some cases using President Donald Trump’s own long-ago words against him, on Thursday rolled a barrage of posts on his social media company X to boost his fight against passage of the president’s “big beautiful bill” legislation in the Senate. 

The tech billionaire, who until recently was leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, launched his tweets by pulling out a Trump tweet posted in 2013, years before the president first took office, when Trump pushed back against Republicans who raised the debt ceiling. 

“Wise words,” Musk posted, along with a tweet Trump had posted on Jan. 23, 2013, in which he’d written that “I cannot believe the Republicans are extending the debt ceiling—I am a Republican & I am embarrassed!”

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