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- worldnews@lemmit.online
Because if there’s one person I want to start a third party, it’s Elon Musk.
Elon Musk has vowed to unseat lawmakers who support Donald Trump’s sweeping budget bill, which he has criticized because it would increase the country’s deficit by $3.3tn.
“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” he wrote on his social media platform, X.
A few hours later he added that if “insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day”.
With these threats, lobbed at lawmakers over social media, the tech billionaire has launched himself back into a rift with the US president he helped prop up. Since taking leave from his so-called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge, Musk has sharply criticized Trump’s budget bill, which he has said will undermine his work at Doge by increasing spending.
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Is the nazi mad at the fascist? Good.
Ah please let the clock be broken on this day. The bill is absolutely horrid.
There are two good outcomes here: Musk gets in trouble for “threatening” lawmakers, or this bill dies.
There’s one great outcome: all of the above, and the party splits.
And more! The current discontent at the Democrat Party and the pushes for reforming it have all the more chance of success if the Republicans start fracturing at the same time.
Don’t throw me in the briar patch, Elon!
:)
