Elon Musk announces he is creating a new political party in the United States.

BarcelonaElon Musk has made good on his threat against Donald Trump and announced that he has created a new political party that he has named the America Party. The South African tycoon, who until a few weeks ago was one of the closest allies of the US president, already warned earlier this week that if Congress approved the tax plan championed by Trump – the so-called Big Beautiful Bill– would create a new party, in a new chapter of the crisis that arose in early June between the two, which led to Musk abandoning his political duties in the White House.

"Our country needs an alternative to the one-party Democrat-Republican system so that the people truly have a VOICE," he wrote on Tuesday on the X platform, of which he is the owner. On Thursday, the House of Representatives finally approved the bill, which supposes a very significant increase in the public deficit and debt with a large tax cut, and the following day, July 4, Musk published a survey on the social network to ask the opinions of his followers: "Independence Day is a perfect (some would say one-party) moment. Should we create the America Party?"

He added that one way to achieve this would be to "focus on only two or three Senate seats and between eight and ten House districts." "Given the narrow legislative margins, this would be sufficient to serve as a deciding vote on controversial laws and would already ensure that they serve the true will of the people," he argued, referring to the narrow majority Republicans hold in both legislative chambers.

The result of the poll, in which more than 1.2 million people participated, was favorable, with 65.4% of the votes in favor. Musk reacted this Saturday night: "He wants a new political party and he will get it! When it comes to ruining our country with waste and bribery, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy. Today, the America Party was formed to give you back your freedom."

The former ally of the president, who has headed the Department of Energy and Energy (DOGE) since January and has been responsible for hundreds of unfair dismissals of public officials, showed his frontal opposition to an increase in public spending that he considers excessive and a "repugnant abomination" new party to confront Trump, the president responded by threatening to apply the full force of public cuts, a veiled threat to his companies that receive money from the administration, such as SpaceX. the Republican environment and if the South African businessman gains enough support to carry out his new political project.