Musk funneled $15 million to Trump and Republicans even amid their online feud – The Independent
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Even as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk escalated their bitter feud, the Tesla billionaire funneled $15 million to Republican-affiliated political action committees, according to a new report from Politico.
Federal Election Commission reports show that Musk donated $5 million to the MAGA Inc., a Trump-affiliated super PAC, a type of PAC wherein donors can give unlimited amounts of money as long as it does not officially coordinate with a campaign.
Musk also contributed $5 million apiece to the Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund, super PACs affiliated by Senate and House Republican leadership, respectively.
The SpaceX CEO, who also purchased Twitter and renamed it X, made the contributions on June 27, 2025, which came after Musk left the White House, where he led the Department of Government Efficiency.
Initially, the two seemed to part on amicable terms. Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars through multiple super PACs to elect Trump in the 2024 presidential election. He billed himself as the “first buddy.”
But upon his exit Musk would later go nuclear, and called Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” an ”outrageous, pork-filled” bill. Musk would then drop an even bigger bomb, when he said “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 cut his checks to the three PACs.
That did not stop Musk from continuing his attacks on the GOP. On June 30, a few days after Musk cut 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.”
Every campaign committee, super PAC and political action commission has to file reports with the FEC to disclose how much money they raised. The three super PACs released their mid-year reports last month. It is not clear if Musk made any other contributions to other Republican PACs.
Musk proposed creating a third political party in the United States with his “America Party,” saying “the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
But so far, the America Party has failed to get off the ground and Musk has not yet filed paperwork to create it.
Trump’s election was not the only election Musk inserted himself into. He poured millions into Wisconsin’s supreme court race earlier this year, wherein he cut $1 million checks to voters the weekend before the election. In the end, liberal candidate Susan Crawford would win the race overwhelmingly.
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