Musk threatens Trump with creating his own political party if the “Big Beautiful Bill” passes

As US senators entered a marathon session on June 30 to vote on Donald Trump's budget bill, nicknamed "Big Beautiful Bill," billionaire Elon Musk is once again issuing threats on his social network X. "The biggest donor to the Republican camp has called for the creation of a new party, called the America Party, and has threatened to support challengers to current Republican lawmakers in the upcoming primaries if the bill ultimately passes the Senate," The New York Times reports .

“If this insane bill passes, the Party of America will be created the next day,” Musk said in a message shared with his nearly 220 million followers on his social network X. “Our country needs an alternative to the one-party Democratic-Republican system so that the people truly have a VOICE,” he added.

On the evening of June 30, the billionaire also assured that almost all Republican representatives in the House of Representatives and the Senate “will lose their primaries next year, if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.” This would nevertheless be a “titanic task,” the New York daily emphasizes, “even for the richest person in the world who has donated nearly $300 million [around 250 million euros] to Republican candidates in the 2024 elections.”

The Politico website points out that the vote on this mega-bill in the House of Representatives at the end of May had already given rise to a very public and resounding break-up between Donald Trump and Elon Musk , and that the billionaire did not hesitate to pin the Republican elected officials on X by writing: “All the members of Congress who campaigned on reducing public spending and then voted in favor of the largest increase in debt in history should die of shame.”