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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced the establishment of a new political party in the United States on X. The party is named The America Party.
Yesterday, on the American Independence Day, Musk asked his followers on X in a poll if they wanted a new party or not. The owner of X has more than 221 million followers on the platform. More than 1.2 million people voted; More than 65 percent were positive about a new political party.
“When it comes to making our country with waste and corruption, we live in a one -party system, not in a democracy,” Musk writes. “Today The America Party was founded to give you your freedom back.”
Musk was an important ally during the election campaign last year during the election campaign and this year at the start of President Trump’s second term. The billionaire was in charge of the Doge Task Force, with which he had to prune considerably in government spending.
Quarrel with Trump
At the end of May, Musk stopped as an adviser to the American government and head of Doge. Then Musk and Trump openly argue with each other via social media. The reason was Trump’s new bill that he was the ‘big beautiful bill‘Mention, with enormous tax cuts that would increase the American budget deficit.
That was against the sore leg of Musk, who, as head of Doge, had the task of strongly reducing government spending. Musk therefore called Trump’s proposal on X a “disgusting monster”.
Quarrel about the budget turned out to be the end of the ‘bromance’ of Trump and Musk: