As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk intensified their bitter feud, the Tesla billionaire directed $15 million to Republican-aligned political motion committees, in accordance with a brand new report from Politico.
Musk additionally contributed $5 million apiece to the Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund, tremendous PACs affiliated by Senate and House Republican management, respectively.
The SpaceX CEO, who additionally bought Twitter and renamed it X, made the contributions on June 27, 2025, which came after Musk left the White House, the place he led the Department of Government Efficiency.
Initially, the 2 appeared to half on amicable phrases. Musk spent lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} via a number of tremendous PACs to elect Trump within the 2024 presidential election. He billed himself because the “first buddy.”
But upon his exit Musk would later go nuclear, and known as Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” an ”outrageous, pork-filled” invoice. Musk would then drop an even bigger bomb, when he mentioned “is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Musk would apologize, saying he “went too far.” Two weeks later, Musk would minimize his checks to the three PACs.
That didn’t cease Musk from persevering with his assaults on the GOP. On June 30, a number of days after Musk minimize his checks, he threatened that any Republican who voted for the bill “will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”
