USA Dispute over Trump's tax law - Musk threatens MPs
Tech billionaire Elon Musk rails against US President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill in a series of social media posts - and also issues a threat against members of Congress.
01.07.2025, 05:22
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"Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the largest debt increase in history should be ashamed of themselves!" he wrote on Platform X. "And they will lose their primary next year if it's the last thing I do on this earth."
In another post, he criticized a supposed "unified party" of Democrats and Republicans and emphasized that the U.S. needed an alternative. "If this insane spending bill is passed, the next day the America Party will be formed." It was time for a new political party that actually cared about the people, he wrote in another post. Musk had already suggested founding a new centrist party a few weeks ago.
Law has long been a thorn in Musk's side
The dispute between him and Trump, which culminated in an open mud-slinging, was sparked by the Tax and Spending Act. The US President wants to implement key election promises - Musk, on the other hand, is calling for significantly greater spending cuts.
The bill is currently being negotiated in the Senate. If it passes the House of Congress, it will still need approval in the House of Representatives. Trump has been campaigning for weeks for the bill to be passed - and is also exerting pressure on critics within the Republican Party. Conservative budget policy dissenters, like Musk, have recently criticized, among other things, that the plan does not go far enough in terms of cutting government spending.
