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Trump and Musk are fighting again

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02.07.2025
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Trump, Musk reignite feud

President Trump and his onetime ally Elon Musk are at each other's throats once again, after winding down tensions last month following their public blowout.

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Musk renewed his calls Monday for a new political party as he lodged sharp criticism against Trump's megabill as the Senate sought to move toward a final vote on the reconciliation package.

“It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country — the PORKY PIG PARTY!!” Musk wrote on his social platform X.

“Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people,” he added.

The tech billionaire, whose close relationship with Trump quickly devolved into a public clash last month, has blasted Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” as “utterly insane” and “political suicide” for the GOP.


Amid his tiff with Trump, Musk had previously launched a poll asking X users whether the country needed a new faction for political nominees; he then floated the idea of “The America Party” to “represent the 80% in the middle.”

Musk, before stepping away from the White House last month, was the head of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spearheading massive cuts and sweeping changes to the federal government.

Meanwhile, Trump on Tuesday suggested that DOGE could take a “good, hard, look” at the tech mogul's companies and the extent to which they’ve benefited from environmental tax credits, many of which are set to be cut in the president's tax and spending bill.

“Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate,” Trump

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