Elon Musk is threatening to primary every last Republican who supports President Trump's agenda, as a weeks-long truce between the world's richest man and its most powerful political figure unravels in public view.
In an unhinged series of posts, Musk vowed to unseat any Republican who votes for Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," which passed the Senate Tuesday with Vice President J.D. Vance breaking a tie.
Trump has said that the Tesla CEO has an ulterior motive for opposing the bill, which eliminates tax credits for electric cars, although Musk insists his opposition is about the federal budget.
As the Senate scrambled to pass Trump's bill before a July 4th deadline, Musk threatened to launch his own political party and unseat any GOP incumbents who back the president.
"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!” Musk wrote on X.
“And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” he said.
Musk has also allied himself with House Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a libertarian with an infamous contrarian streak who has repeatedly rankled Trump.
Musk had previously apologized for attacking Trump in early June, when Musk labeled Trump's sprawling tax bill a fiscal abomination.
The feud quickly turned personal, with Musk tying Trump, without evidence, to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes as Trump threatened to terminate Musk's government contracts.
Trump had restrained himself at first as Musk returned to taking shots at the president over the weekend, but Trump's tone sharpened as Musk escalated his attacks, with Trump telling a reporter Tuesday he would look into deporting Musk to his native South Africa.
“We’ll have to take a look,” Trump replied. “We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.”
"Now he's upset that he's losing his EV mandate, and he's upset. You know, he's very upset about things, but you know he could lose a lot more than that, I can tell you right now. Hey, Elon can lose a lot more than that," Trump said.
Musk will have a lot of primary campaigns to bankroll if he is serious about challenging Trump: just three Republican senators - one of whom, Thom Tillis (Nc.), is retiring - voted against Trump's bill Tuesday, and it passed the House in May with the vast majority of Republicans in support.
Of course, the bill now has to pass the House again, and some Republicans already say they don't support the Senate's changes.
