Elon Musk Relocates SpaceX and X Headquarters to Texas, Citing California's New Family Law

July 17th, Texas:
In a Tuesday tweet, Elon Musk—CEO of Tesla—announced that he is relocating the headquarters of his companies SpaceX and X—formerly Twitter to Texas. He made a number of grievances about California and doing business in San Francisco, according to the Los Angeles Times. According to the Los Angeles Times, Musk said on Twitter that he is relocating SpaceX's headquarters from Hawthorne to the company's launch test site in Texas, citing a new state legislation that prohibits teachers from informing families about students' gender identification changes.


According to the Los Angeles Times, SpaceX has been instrumental in establishing a thriving space economy in Southern California, thus this development would be devastating for the region. Musk commented, "This is the final straw," just after noon. "Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas."

Following a heated dispute between conservative school boards that were worried about parental rights and LGBTQ+ advocates who were worried about vulnerable kids, Governor Gavin Newsom approved the bill that the SpaceX founder highlighted on Monday. Musk said in a tweet that he will be relocating X—formerly known as Twitter—from San Francisco to Austin, just a few days after he blogged about SpaceX. He stated that he has "had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building."

Nearly three years ago, Musk declared that Tesla's headquarters will be moving from Palo Alto to Austin, citing the high cost of housing and long commutes for staff as reasons. This statement is the latest salvo in Musk's long-running dispute with California. Fremont is home to a production facility for the electric vehicle business.

This occurs in the midst of a heated presidential campaign, when the libertarian Musk has been steadily shifting to the right. Before the election, Musk was among the first businesspeople to publicly support Donald Trump for president. Another political voice weighed in on Musk's comments; San Francisco Democrat Scott Wiener, who represents the state, said that Musk reaped enormous benefits from California's subsidies. "Will this be a fake temper tantrum move just like Tesla's fake" occurrence "to Texas?" Weiner went on: "I'm not confident that whatever he's going to do has anything to do with a law that we passed to protect the safety of trans kids," said the senator. "He has a history of saying one thing and it not being true."