Billionaire Elon Musk said he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California.
Musk posted on X on Tuesday that he plans to move SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. X will move to Austin from San Francisco.
He called a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that bars school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change the “final straw.”
“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children,” Musk wrote.
State Sen. Scott Wiener replied to Musk’s message, writing that he has benefited from the state’s taxpayer subsidies and questioned if Musk was serious about the move.
“California literally made you with taxpayer subsidies & because it’s the best place around. Will this be a fake temper tantrum move just like Tesla’s fake “move” to Texas?” Wiener said on X.