Billionaire Elon Musk says he is moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X from California to Texas. Musk posted on X on Tuesday that he plans to move SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. X will move from San Francisco to Austin. He called a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that prevents school districts from requiring their staff to inform parents of their child's gender identity change “the last straw.” “I made it clear to Gov. Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and businesses to leave California to protect their children,” Musk wrote. Tesla, where Musk is CEO, moved its corporate headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin in 2021. “Gavin Newsom's anti-parent agenda isn't just bad for families — it's now seriously damaging California's economy,” California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher said in a statement. “With the highest unemployment rate in the country, you'd think our governor would do anything possible to protect jobs.” Instead, he's pandering to extremists in his party by excluding parents from their children's education and driving even more companies to move to other states.” Musk has also said he has changed his residency from California to Texas, which has no state income tax. SpaceX builds and launches its giant Starship rockets from the southern tip of Texas at Boca Chica Beach, near the Mexican border, at a site called Starbase. The company's smaller Falcon 9 rockets launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Southern California. It's just below South Padre Island and about 20 miles from Brownsville. Newsom responded by sharing a disparaging post Trump had previously made about Musk on Truth Social, then adding, “You bent the knee.” For more coverage of the top news stories from California, click here | Download our app.
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Billionaire Elon Musk says he will move the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X from California to Texas.
Musk posted on X on Tuesday that he plans to move SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. X will move from San Francisco to Austin.
He called a new law signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday that prohibits school districts from requiring their staff to inform parents of their child's change of gender identity “the last straw.”
“I made it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws like this would force families and businesses to leave California to protect their children,” Musk wrote.
Tesla, where Musk is CEO, moved its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin in 2021.
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This is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Because of this law and many others before it that attacked both families and businesses, SpaceX will now move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas. https://t.co/cpWUDgBWFe
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2024
“Gavin Newsom's anti-parent agenda isn't just bad for families – it's now doing serious damage to California's economy,” said James Gallagher, Republican leader in the California Assembly, in a statement. “With the highest unemployment rate in the country, you'd think our governor would do everything possible to protect jobs. Instead, he's pandering to extremists in his party by excluding parents from their children's education and driving even more companies to move to other states.”
Musk also stated that he changed his residence from California to Texas, where there is no state income tax.
SpaceX builds and launches its giant Starship rockets at the southern tip of Texas at Boca Chica Beach, near the Mexican border, at a site called Starbase. The company's smaller Falcon 9 rockets launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Southern California.
It is located just below South Padre Island and about 20 miles from Brownsville.
Newsom responded by sharing a derogatory post Trump had previously made about Musk on Truth Social, then added, “You bent the knee.”
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Governor Newsom reacts to Elon Musk's announcement today that SpaceX will be pulled from California because of a new law that prohibits schools from notifying parents if their child is transgender.
“They bent the knee” – with a 2022 social media post by Trump denigrating electric vehicles and Musk. https://t.co/u3aqzwEbKH
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) July 16, 2024
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