Elon Musk’s boast of the new party may initially focus on a handful of achievable House and Senate seats while working to vote on a decisive vote on major issues amid Congress’ thin margins.
Tesla and SpaceX’s multimillionaire CEO muses the approach Friday in an article on his own social media platform X as he continues to argue with Donald Trump in a spending bill the president has signed into law.
“One way to do this is to have laser focus in 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House areas,” Musk wrote. He is the richest man in the world and the wealthiest man in the world has brutally cut the federal government after Trump’s second presidency began in January. “Given the edge of the legislation of razors, this is enough to act as a decision of controversial law to ensure they serve the true will of the people.”
Musk hasn’t specified any seats he might be paying attention to.
In another article on Friday, Musk published a poll asking whether his X followers should promote his previously stated idea of creating the so-called American party to challenge Republicans and Democrats. As of Saturday morning, more than 65% of the approximately 1.25 million responses said “yes”.
“Independence Day is a great time to ask if you want to be independent from a two-party (some would say unilateral) system!” Musk also wrote in the poll text that he promoted several times throughout Friday.
Musk’s post Friday comes after he spent $277 million in property to support Trump’s victory in 2024 presidential election. The Republican president appointed Musk to lead the so-called “Ministry of Government Efficiency,” or Doge, which suddenly and chaoticly cuts various government work and plans while claiming that it saved $190 billion.
But, according to analysis of partner services, Doge’s actions could also bring $135 billion to taxpayers, a nonprofit nonprofit that works to study the federal workforce.
Musk was left handed by Musk at the end of May, and recently Trump’s support for a budget bill increased U.S. debt by $330 million. He threatened to support the major challenges of economically against every member of Congress who supported the Trump spending bill and promised to “form the American Party” if passed.
The House voted 218 to 214 for the spending bill, with only two Republicans joining every Democrat in the chamber, failing to succeed. In the Senate, Vice President JD Vance broke the 50-50 deadlock in favor of the bill, which Trump signed on Friday after Musk issued a poll related to the U.S. party.
Trump spent Bill’s vote collapse suggests some of the most controversial matters on Congress’ victory.
Trump warned Musk as a South African native who has naturalized American citizens since 2002 – direct opposition to his agenda would be personally costly. The president recently took over the mass deportation of immigrants, and he openly discussed deporting Musk from the U.S. and cutting government contracts for some of his companies.
Trump posted on his own truth social platform: “Without subsidy, Elon may have to close the store and head to South Africa.”
The president also told a group of reporters in Florida: “We might have to wear Togg in Elon. Doug is a monster who might have to go back and eat Elon. It’s not scary.”
