Elon Musk says US is ruled by 'Porky Pig Party' as Trump defends his vision against former ally's criticism

Elon Musk has not given up his criticism over what he sees as a lack of spending cuts in the GOP's big beautiful bill insisting on his platform X on Monday that we live in a one-party country and threatening that if the bill passes a new America Party would be formed Musk's criticism of the Republican spending package began before he even left the Trump administration as a special regime employee heading the Department of Administration Efficiency DOGE It continued following his departure with Musk describing the bill as pork-filled and a disgusting abomination earlier this month The billionaire entrepreneur has lamented that the bill could work to undo much of the work he accomplished with DOGE 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 X Monday afternoon as the Senate continued to consider the House-passed spending bill Time for a new political party that genuinely cares about the people Musk added ELON MUSK'S FORMER FRIEND WARNS EX-DOGE HEAD WILL DO EVERYTHING TO DAMAGE TRUMPIn a separate post on X Monday evening Musk doubled down on his claim that the U S is governed by a one-party system They just pretend to be two parties he wrote sharing a post alongside a graphic showing how much the national debt has steadily increased every year It s just one uniparty in reality Meanwhile the billionaire entrepreneur threatened that if this insane spending bill passes the America Party will be formed the next day Our country demands an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people literally have a VOICE Musk wrote Monday evening on X FLASHBACK MUSK ACCUSED TRUMP GOP LEADERS OF NOT WANTING TO CUT SPENDING HERE'S WHERE THEY REVEALED THEY WOULDMusk previously reported he was disappointed in the spending bill because it undermines all the work his DOGE organization was accomplishing to cut back on waste fraud and abuse in the federal ruling body However Senate Majority Leader John Thune R S D refuted Musk's claim that the bill would upend all the work he did with DOGE noting in an interview that a lot of what Elon was working on was on the discretionary side of the budget which the big beautiful bill doesn't touch Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought clarified in an interview with The Blaze s Glenn Beck that the GOP s big beautiful bill cannot legally include cuts to discretionary spending the very category targeted by Musk s DOGE initiative he noted The bill includes discretionary spending instructions for defense and confines guard but final approval still requires passage through the congressional appropriations process Earlier this month after formally leaving his post in the Trump administration Musk shared a social media post President Donald Trump posted in noting he was embarrassed at the time to be a Republican after the party extended the debt ceiling Musk shared the former post and wrote wise words TRUMP CALLS ELON MUSK A WONDERFUL GUY DESPITE INTENSE FEUD OVER BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL Several days prior Musk referred to the Trump-endorsed big beautiful bill as a disgusting abomination He has also previously suggested the bill would kill jobs and raise taxes on renewable ability projects not yet even underway The feud between Musk and Trump and his supporters of the bill escalated even further after Musk sought to link Trump to the Jeffrey Epstein child sex controversy in a now-deleted post When reached for comment about Musk's complaints about the Trump-endorsed spending package the White House pointed to the president's comments over the weekend to Fox News Business When appealed on Sunday during an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo about his relationship with Musk since he left the White House the president described Musk as a wonderful guy Later Trump described certain of Musk s post White House behavior as inappropriate I think he's a wonderful guy I haven't spoken to him much but I think Elon is a wonderful guy and I know he's going to do well invariably Trump revealed He's a smart guy And he genuinely went and campaigned with me and this and that But he got a little bit upset and that wasn't appropriate Why did he get upset He just wasn't getting what he desired Bartiromo questioned Look the electric bicycle mandate the EV mandate is a tough thing for him Trump explained I would you know I don't want everybody to have an electric car You know I campaigned on choice you have choice not everybody should have that and not everybody wants that