New Delhi: Former Trump ally and advisor Elon Musk officially announced the formation of the ‘America Party’ Saturday in line with his previous assertion of doing so if the US president’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ was passed
The bill was passed by the House by a narrow 218-214 vote and broke a 50-50 tie in the US Senate with the support of Vice-President J.D. Vance who is also the presiding officer of the Senate, allowing the president to sign it into law Friday.
“Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,” Musk wrote on ‘X’. “By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party, and you shall have it! When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” he added.
By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!
When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.
Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. https://t.co/9K8AD04QQN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2025
His reference to public sentiment followed a poll he conducted on ‘X’ during Independence Day celebrations, asking users whether they supported independence from the “two-party (some would say uniparty) system.” Of the more than 1.25 million responses, roughly 65 percent voted yes.
Musk then reposted an image of a two-headed snake labeled “Uniparty,” with the Democratic donkey and Republican elephant logos on either side. “End the Uniparty,” the meme read. Musk replied simply: “Yes.”
The “America Party,” Musk said, will seek to restore political independence and fiscal responsibility by targeting a handful of closely contested House and Senate seats.
“One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts,” Musk wrote on X.
One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts.
Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2025
“Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring they serve the true will of the people.”
While Musk has yet to specify which congressional seats the America Party may target, he further suggested that the new party would run for the 2026 midterms. Under federal election law, new political parties are not required to register with the Federal Election Commission until they begin raising or spending funds tied to federal races.
Musk’s political transformation from megadonor to defector comes after a chaotic tenure leading DOGE, which Trump created at the start of his second term to slash federal bureaucracy. The initiative claimed to have saved $190 billion, but a report by the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service found that the abrupt eliminations of programs and jobs may have cost taxpayers $135 billion in the long term.
Musk stepped down from DOGE in May, shortly before Trump finalized the spending package that would ultimately trigger their break.
Trump has not taken the rupture lightly. In recent days, he has threatened to strip Musk’s companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, of federal contracts and floated the idea of deporting the South African-born billionaire, who became a US citizen in 2002.
“Without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head to South Africa,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, his own social platform. In Florida later, Trump said, “We might have to put DOGE on Elon. DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible?”
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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