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Tech giant Elon Musk Aims 'Freedom Back Policy' Introduces New Political Party' America Party'

Digital Desk: Tech typhoon Elon Musk, and ex-ally of US President Donald Trump, announced on Saturday the formation of a new political party in the United States to combat what the tech billionaire described as the country's "one-party system."

The world's richest person - and Trump's largest political donor in the 2024 election - had a sour relationship with the president after leading the Republican push to reduce spending and federal workers as director of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Musk has argued with Trump over the president's big domestic spending plan, claiming it will explode the US debt and vowing to do everything in his power to defeat politicians who voted for it.

Now he's formed the so-called America Party, his own political structure, to try to accomplish this.

"When it comes to bankrupting our country through waste and graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy," the Space X and Tesla CEO said on X, his social media site.

"Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."

Musk highlighted a poll published on Friday, US Independence Day, in which he questioned respondents if they "want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system" that has dominated US politics for nearly two centuries.

The yes-or-no survey received almost 1.2 million replies.

Musk put out a hypothetical political battle strategy on Friday, following the survey, to pick up vulnerable House and Senate seats and become "the deciding vote" on critical legislation.

Every two years, all 435 US House seats are up for grabs, while around one-third of the Senate's 100 members are elected for six-year terms.