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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Ramon Antonio Vargas

Elon Musk’s ‘America’ party could focus on a few pivotal congressional seats

Elon Musk with black eye.
Elon Musk has threatened to bankroll challengers to lawmakers who voted in favor of Trump’s spending bill. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress.

Tesla and SpaceX’s multibillionaire CEO mused about that approach on Friday in a post on X, the social media platform he owns, as he continued feuding with Donald Trump over the spending bill that the president has signed into law. On Saturday, without immediately elaborating, the former Trump adviser announced on X that he had created the so-called America party.

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