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Elon Musk just made his starkest political threat since the election
By Hadas Gold, CNN
Updated:
2:03 AM EDT, Tue July 1, 2025
Source: CNN
After declaring he was stepping away from the political spotlight, Elon
Musk got right back in it.
As the Senate debated President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful
Bill” on Monday before a final vote, Musk issued a stark warning via
his social media platform X.
“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! And they will lose their
primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” he .
A few hours later he went further, on X that if the “insane spending
bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.”
“Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty
so that the people actually have a VOICE,” he wrote.
In a late-night post on social media, Trump hit back against Musk and
threatened to direct the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
against the tech billionaire.
“Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far,
and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and
head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or
Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps
we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE
SAVED!!!” Trump wrote on his .
For weeks, Musk has railed against Trump’s policy bill, leading to a
very public and ugly fight with this month. In a flurry of X posts
several weeks ago, Musk had proposed starting a new political party.
That proposal resurfaced on Monday, when Musk : “It is obvious with
the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a
record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country –
the PORKY PIG PARTY!! Time for a new political party that actually
cares about the people.”
Musk’s resolution to support candidates who plan to launch primary
campaigns against members of Congress is one of Musk’s most concrete
political threats since leaving his post as a White House adviser. Musk
spent more than $275 million to support Trump and other Republican
candidates in the 2024 election. In late May he said in an interview he
was planning to cut back on political spending, saying he has “done
enough.”
According to Federal Election Commission filings, Musk’s political
action committee, America PAC, last gave money in March to support two
Republican candidates running in special elections in Florida – Randy
Fine and Jimmy Patronis.
Musk has long supported closed borders, deportations and stopping
illegal immigration, in line with the Trump administration.
But the domestic policy bill has appeared to trigger a rift between the
Tesla CEO and the White House. Musk has argued that the Republican
policy bill will increase the debt, calling it “debt slavery.”
The Senate bill would add over the next decade, according to a
Congressional Budget Office estimate released Sunday. The Senate
legislation costs more than the House-approved bill, which would add
$2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.
The Senate package contains deeper tax cuts, fewer spending cuts and
provisions that would raise revenue. The White House has the bill
“slashes deficits” and the debt, while “unleashing economic
growth.”
The Trump administration and certain Senate Republicans are opting not
to include the cost of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts in their
calculations of the bill’s impact on the federal deficit.
Though Musk has said the loss of electric vehicle (EV) and solar energy
subsidies and credits in the bill are not why he opposes the
legislation, he has the bill “gives handouts to industries of the
past while severely damaging industries of the future.”
In his post on Truth Social, Trump defended his position against EV
mandates, writing: “Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly
Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate.
It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric
cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one.”
CNN’s Tami Luhby contributed reporting.
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