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New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk's Government Contracts as Feud Escalates — The open acrimony between the two men comes after the billionaire denounced President Trump's signature domestic policy bill as an “abomination.” — Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times — Here's the latest.
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Rolling Stone:
Trump and His Team Tease Vengeance Against Elon as Feud Goes Nuclear — The president is threatening to “terminate” Musk's federal contracts, while a senior appointee warns the administration could investigate his companies — President Donald Trump has threatened to “terminate” …
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Trump and Musk's relationship flames out just as it started, intensely and publicly — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to cut Elon Musk's government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud with Trump suggesting he would use the U.S. government to hurt his fellow billionaire financially.
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Bloomberg:
Tesla Plunges After Conflict Erupts Between Musk and Trump … Trump on Thursday said he was “very disappointed” by the Tesla chief executive officer's criticism of the president's signature tax policy bill. Musk fired back in several social media posts, saying in one that “without me, Trump would have lost the election.”
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump-Musk Feud Explodes as Elon Alleges Trump Is in Epstein Files — Meanwhile, the president suggested the world's richest man may have come down with a nasty case of Trump Derangement Syndrome — Elon Musk has been waging a full-throated campaign against Donald Trump's “big, beautiful” …
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Bloomberg:
Musk Says SpaceX to Decommission Dragon Spacecraft Immediately — Elon Musk said he was going to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft that ferries cargo and people to the International Space Station for the US, escalating a dayslong spat between the billionaire and President Donald Trump.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Musk calls for Trump's impeachment — Elon Musk unleashed a fresh round of tweets Thursday evening, calling for President Trump to be impeached and declaring that SpaceX would begin decommissioning a spacecraft essential to NASA's operation. — Why it matters: Trump's threat to cancel billions …
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Kenneal Patterson / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Calls to Deport Musk Amid Messy Trump Breakup — Steve Bannon suggested a peculiar solution to the Trump-Musk breakup: Kick the Tesla billionaire out of the country. “They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief …
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Adam Kinzinger:
Trump's Empire of Control Is Crumbling — Donald Trump is furious. What's bugging him? Simple: powerful people he thought he owned are rebelling. — The prime example is his fraying relationship with Elon Musk—the world's richest man and, until recently, Trump's “First Buddy.”
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Mike Johnson scrambles to stop Elon Musk from torching the megabill — The speaker is mounting a multi-front rebuttal to the billionaire's criticism — and trying to keep the backlash contained. — Mike Johnson has spent his 19 months as speaker forging a close relationship with President Donald Trump …
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Joey Garrison / USA Today:
Elon Musk escalates feud with Trump: ‘Time to drop the really big bomb’ — On his social media platform X, Elon Musk alleged President Donald Trump's name is listed in classified files related to the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. — WASHINGTON ― Elon Musk alleged …
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Washington Post:
Musk says Trump would have lost the 2024 election without his help
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Musk floats idea of third party amid feud with Trump
Musk floats idea of third party amid feud with Trump
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Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Says He Told Trump to Investigate Musk as an ‘Illegal Alien’
Steve Bannon Says He Told Trump to Investigate Musk as an ‘Illegal Alien’
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump just took his public feud with Musk to a new level: Going after his money
Trump just took his public feud with Musk to a new level: Going after his money
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Elon Musk directs attacks on Hill GOP leaders
Rachel Wolf / Fox News:
Musk says Trump would have lost 2024 election without him as ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ feud continues
Musk says Trump would have lost 2024 election without him as ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ feud continues
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Politico:
‘Such ingratitude’: Musk, Trump blow up over GOP megabill
‘Such ingratitude’: Musk, Trump blow up over GOP megabill
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Stephen Miller Erupts in Fury Over Low Arrests—and Hands Dems a Weapon — The potential deportation of people like Carol Hui, which has shocked locals in the Missouri town where she's lived for 20 years, has inspired a searching debate: What did people think they were voting for when they chose Donald Trump?
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats
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David Weigel / Semafor:
Centrist Democrats want a fight with the left
Centrist Democrats want a fight with the left
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Politico:
Medicare is a target as Senate GOP faces megabill math issues — Republicans have so far kept hands off the politically sensitive program. But senators are now desperate to find additional spending cuts. — Senate Republicans are eyeing possible Medicare provisions to help offset the cost …
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Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that they matter’ — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz defended President Trump's “big, beautiful bill” over criticism that millions of people could lose health coverage, saying those who would face new work requirements should “prove that they matter.”
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Medicare changes on table for ‘big, beautiful bill,’ says GOP senator
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’ losing momentum in Senate
Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill’ losing momentum in Senate
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Axios:
Scoop: Trump admired Ukraine's “badass” attack, but worries what's next — President Trump thought Ukraine's surprise drone attack over the weekend was “strong” and “badass,” sources who discussed it with him tell Axios, but he's also concerned it will make his ceasefire mission even harder.
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Bidenworld goes scorched earth on Karine Jean-Pierre — Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Tuesday that she's written a book about a “broken” Biden White House and what she sees as the betrayal of the former president by the Democratic Party.
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Paul Krugman:
Elon Musk is a Disgusting Abomination — On Tuesday, after Elon Musk blasted out the screed above, a friend texted me: “I guess the worm has turned. Oh, wait, I guess that's RFK.” Indeed. We don't know exactly what set off this tweet and the series of whines that followed, but it may have been the ketamine talking.
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Washington Post:
D.C.'s Reagan National Airport will close during Army's birthday bash — Military flyovers and fireworks on June 14, which coincides with Trump's birthday, are expected to disrupt commercial passenger flights. — Reagan National Airport is expected to halt takeoffs and landings …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court makes it easier to claim ‘reverse discrimination’ in employment, in a case from Ohio — A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn't get a job and then was demoted because she is straight.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rules for Straight Woman in Job Discrimination Suit
Supreme Court Rules for Straight Woman in Job Discrimination Suit
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention — Counter-terror chief was pulling up weeds just five years ago.
Luke Goldstein / The Lever:
Crypto's New Bailout Fund: Your Savings Account — After a flood of crypto industry campaign cash, the U.S. Senate is poised to pass a financial deregulation bill ensuring that when a bank goes out of business, the savings of cryptocurrency owners would be made whole before those of other bank customers.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump critic David Jolly running for governor as Democrat — Former Florida Republican congressman and Trump critic David Jolly on Thursday officially launched his campaign for governor as a Democrat. — “Let's end the politics of division and return Florida to voters who simply want an economy …
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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
How to become a right-wing star? Harass people — Here is one version of the story: A Brown University student created a shoddy AI that labeled individual university administrative employees with terms like “DEI,” “antisemitism,” and “flunkie.” He emailed all of the employees …
New York Times:
Millions Would Lose Their Obamacare Coverage Under Trump's Bill — Though Republicans are not explicitly trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a series of small, technical changes would substantially reduce enrollment and increase the cost of coverage. — Millions of Obamacare enrollees …
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Cameron Arcand / Fox News:
Controversial airport watchlist program terminated by DHS amid weaponization concerns — Secretary Noem condemns Biden administration's ‘weaponization’ of security protocols — EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ending the Quiet Skies program, which left some Americans subject …
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Lomi Kriel / ProPublica:
Texas Talks Tough on Immigration. But Lawmakers Won't Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization. — Texas' conservative Legislature has again and again refused to mandate that most private businesses use E-Verify. Experts say that Republican resistance is rooted …
