After falling out with Republican President Donald Trump, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he wants to create another political party. The former special government employee with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced his intentions on X Saturday, July 5.
“When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” Musk wrote on X. “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
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The day before, Friday, July 4, Musk posted a poll asking people if they want ” independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system!” Around 65% of people who answered the poll said “yes.”
Musk wrote that his plan is to be “laser-focus[ed]” on two to three seats in the Senate, as well as eight to 10 districts in the House of Representatives. “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,” Musk said.
Asked by one X user who the America Party would caucus with, Musk said, “Legislative discussions would be had with both parties.”
“Caucus independently,” Musk said.
Musk, Trump feud
Musk was initially tapped at the beginning of Trump’s second term to lead DOGE, which saw sweeping job cuts, lawsuits and inflated savings claims. He left his role in May — and days later, Musk started criticizing Trump’s spending package, which the president later signed into law.
While Trump called it the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” Musk said the “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.”
During an Oval Office press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump said Musk criticized the bill because of the removal of an electric vehicle tax credit, and said he didn’t know if the two could mend their relationship.
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump said. “He wore the hat, ‘Trump was right about everything,’ and I am right about the great, big, beautiful bill.”
Meanwhile, Musk said that “Trump would have lost the election” without him. They’ve since continued the back and forth, with Trump threatening to cut federal subsidies to Musk’s companies.
On Sunday, July 6, Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that while DOGE policies were popular, “if you looked at the polling, Elon was not.”
“I believe that the boards of directors at his various companies wanted him to come back and run those companies, which he is better at than anyone,” Bessent said. “So I imagine that those boards of directors did not like this announcement yesterday and will be encouraging him to focus on his business activities, not his political activities.”
