Elon Musk Wages New Capitol Hill War With Blitz of Posts

MAGA billionaire Elon Musk has called on Americans to kick out over 150 Democratic House lawmakers who voted against a Republican bill that critics said could lead to the deportation of sexual assault survivors.

In a series of tweets posted late Saturday night, the Tesla CEO and confidant of President-elect Donald Trump expressed fury at House members who voted nay in September 2024 on the “Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act” put forward by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).

“These awful people all need to be voted out, either in the primaries or the general election,” he wrote. “They sully the Capitol Building with their presence.”

It marks the latest in Musk’s high-profile attacks on Congress since Trump was elected—his ire was previously trained on the GOP when he torpedoed a Republican-backed government spending bill last month.

What Musk left out of his latest attack, trained on Democrats, is that opponents of Mace’s legislation said, despite its name, the bill won’t actually do anything and may end up punishing victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who voted nay, accused Mace of putting forward “purely a messaging bill,” invoking a term for legislation introduced for political reasons to rile up voters and that either has little chance of passing or does little to address the issue it raises.

Mace claimed the bill “ensures predators who pose a threat and have been previously convicted of sexual assault, domestic violence and other heinous crimes are turned away or immediately deported.” Nadler noted these things are already illegal and grounds for deportation.

“It would be almost entirely redundant to current law. Let me repeat: because all of the conduct described here already constitutes a deportable offense, this bill would ensure that no additional dangerous individuals would face immigration consequences. Zero,” said Nadler (D-NY).

Nadler also noted that nearly 180 groups as part of the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence opposed the legislation because it used a broader definition of domestic violence—used in the Violence Against Women Act for grants and funding, not in criminal law—that could sweep up women who use self-defense against their abusers.

In other words, victims could be deported.

“I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering that this is the same party supporting a man who was found liable for sexual assault and bragged about grabbing and forcibly kissing women without their consent,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who opposed the bill.

“At first, we thought it was a satirical story in the Onion,” wrote the Charleston City Paper of Mace’s legislation. “The bill is unnecessary. And what’s worse, experts say its text is so vague and poorly drafted that it’s likely to get survivors–yes, survivors–of sexual violence tossed out of the country."

The bill passed in the House in a 266-158.

It was referred to, but noted voted on, in the Senate before the end of the end of the 118th session of Congress, and would need to be reintroduced in the new Congress to be considered again.

Mace, meanwhile, voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in 2021.