Musk, once an ubiquitous ally of Trump, when he headed the slashing agency known as the Department of Government efficiency, broke the Republican president because of his signature legislation, which was signed in the law on Friday.
When the draft law went through the congress, Musk threatened to form the “America Party” If “this crazy expenditure calculation passes”.
“When it comes to offering our country with waste & transplant to banking, we live in a one-party system, not in a democracy,” said Musk on Saturday on X, the social media company that he owns. “Today the America party is formed to give them their freedom.”
When asked about the efforts of the reporters on Sunday afternoon when he prepared to return from his house in New Jersey to Washington, Trump Musk’s proposal called “ridiculous” and was “enormous success with the Republican Party” with the Republican Party.
“The Democrats lost their way, but it has always been a two-party system,” added Trump. “And I think to start a third, only contributes to confusion. It seems to have been really developed for two parties.” Third, said Trump, never worked.
The formation of new political parties is not unusual, but they usually struggle to significantly support the Republican and Democratic parties. But Musk, the richest man in the world, who spent at least 250 million US dollars for the support of Trump in the 2024 elections, could affect the elections of 2026 to determine the control of the congress if he is willing to issue considerable amounts of money.
His inflamed feud with the president Could also be expensive for muskwhose companies are dependent on billions of dollars of government contracts, and the publicly traded company Tesla has brought a goal onto the market.
It was not clear whether Musk had taken steps to officially create the new political party. Spokesman for Musk and his political campaign committee, America Pac, did not immediately comment on Sunday.
Until Sunday morning, several political parties were listed in the database for election commission, which had been formed in the hours since the Musks X -Post with versions of the “America Party” by “Doge” or “X” in the name or musk, which were listed among the people connected to the company.
But nobody seemed to be authentic and contacts for organization as an e -mail addresses such as B. list. ” witsnowboarding@yahoo.com “Or proton email addresses that cannot be found.
Musk spent the morning on Sunday to get X from the users feedback about the party and stated that he would use the party to participate in the 2026 interim elections.
Last month, he threatened to try to displace every member of the congress who voted for Trump’s draft law. Musk had described the tax breaks and spending cuts a “disgusting abomination”, since it would increase the federal deficit, among other things.
“The Republican Party has a clean passage of the executive, legislative and judicial branch and still had the nerve to increase the government size massively and to expand the public debt by a record of five trillion dollars,” said Musk on Sunday to X.
His criticism of the invoice and a political party marked a reversal from May when his time in the White House lay down and the head of the rocket company SpaceX and electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla said that he would spend “much less” on politics in the future.
Finance minister Scott betsWho collapsed with Muschus when he was mastning, said on Sunday about CNN’s “State of the Union” that Doges “principles” were popular, but “if you look at the surveys, Elon was not.”
“I imagine that this board of directors did not like this announcement yesterday and will encourage him to concentrate on his business activities, not on his political activities,” he said.
