{"id":155932,"date":"2025-07-06T01:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-elon-musk-announces-new-political-party-targeting-sway-in-congress-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T01:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:31:06","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-elon-musk-announces-new-political-party-targeting-sway-in-congress-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-elon-musk-announces-new-political-party-targeting-sway-in-congress-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Elon Musk announces new political party targeting sway in Congress – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, only departed from the White House this May but has been critical of Trump\u2019s signature policy bill \u2013 key US politics stories from Saturday 5 July
The fallout between the US president, Donald Trump<\/a>, and tech billionaire Elon Musk has reached a new low, with Musk declaring this weekend that he will bankroll a new political party to rival the president.
Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, only departed from the White House this May but has been critical of Trump\u2019s signature policy bill, which he has described as \u201cutterly insane and destructive\u201d.
\u201cToday, the America party is formed to give you back your freedom,\u201d Musk wrote on X on Saturday, adding that: \u201cBy a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party, and you shall have it! When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.\u201d
Here are the key stories:
The new US political party that Elon Musk<\/a> 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<\/a>.
The Tesla and SpaceX\u2019s 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<\/a> over the spending bill that the president has signed into law. On Saturday, without immediately elaborating, the former Trump adviser announced<\/a> on X that he had created the so-called America party.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Pete Hegseth<\/a>, the US defense secretary, unilaterally halted an agreed shipment of military aid to Ukraine due to baseless concerns that US stockpiles of weapons have run too low, it has been reported.
A batch of air defense missiles and other precision munitions were due to be sent to Ukraine<\/a> to aid it in its ongoing war with Russia<\/a>, which launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in 2022. The aid was promised by the US during Joe Biden\u2019s administration last year.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
An email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients is misleading, critics have said.
The reconciliation bill \u2013 which the president called the \u201cone big, beautiful bill\u201d before signing it on Friday after Republicans in Congress passed it \u2013 includes provisions that will strip people of their health insurance, cut food assistance for the poor, kill off clean energy development and raise the national debt by trillions of dollars.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Bernie Sanders, the venerable democratic socialist senator from Vermont<\/a>, was not in a mood to pull punches.
\u201cTrump is undermining our democracy and rapidly moving us towards authoritarianism, and the billionaires who care more about their stock portfolios than our democracy are helping him do it,\u201d he fumed in a statement last week.
Such outbursts have been common in recent months as Sanders has taken up a leading position opposing Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second term, and flagging his concern that the president is waging a war against the media \u2013 and winning.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A nationwide US network of dozens of far-right, men-only fraternal clubs has what members describe as \u201cliterally hundreds\u201d of participants who include past and currently serving military personnel, lawyers, civil servants and prominent antisemitic influencers, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
The Old Glory Club (OGC) \u2013 which has at least 26 chapters in 20 US states and until now has drawn little attention \u2013 exemplifies the alarming rise of organized racist political groups in the past few years but especially during the rise of Donald Trump<\/a> and his return to the White House.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Texas continues grim flood recovery<\/a> with at least 32 killed, including 14 children
US hit with mass shootings and fatal accidents<\/a> on Fourth of July holiday
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 4 July 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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