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Dems Call For IG Investigation Into Trump’s Reckless Library Of Congress Upheaval

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Trump and Musk’s public attacks on each other add to questions about DOGE’s accomplishments, future
Trump and Musk public bickering raises more DOGE uncertainty
How the Trump-backed policy bill rolls back Obamacare
How Trump's policy bill rolls back Obamacare
Fact-checking claims about the Colorado attack at a gathering supporting hostages held by Hamas
Fact-checking claims about Boulder, Colorado, attack
Russell Vought - What’s an ‘improper’ Medicaid payment, and is it as high as a Trump official said?
“One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid (payments) is improper.”
Yes, House budget bill eliminates federal Medicaid dollars for trans adults’ gender-affirming care
House bill cuts Medicaid funds for adult trans health care

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US sanctions four International Criminal Court judges
What we know so far: Trump and Musk’s spectacular public blowup rocks Washington
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Cruz calls Trump, Musk rift ‘incredibly unfortunate’

The Atlantic

When Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways
The defense secretary annoyed Donald Trump with a favor for Elon Musk. Hegseth’s problems only grew from there.
Ukraine Got a Major Battle Victory. Trump Is Not Happy.
The president has fumed that Kyiv’s drone strike could prolong a war that he’s desperate to end.
Trump Tries to Blame the Colorado Attack on ‘Open Border’ Policies
The reality of the suspect’s immigration status is more complex than the president and his aides have portrayed.
The Trump Administration Is Spending $2 Million to Figure Out Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes
The president may be disappointed by the findings.
The GOP’s New Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their health-care cuts on the merits, congressional Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.

Talking Points Memo

Reporting and analysis about American politics

The Blowup We’ve All Been Waiting For
The first public breakup of Trump II unfolded before our eyes this afternoon — a pinch-me ❤️ moment for those...
Elon-Trump, Welcome to the Thunderdome
We’ve clearly clarified that the Elon-Trump feud is real. I assume you’ve seen or heard about the back-and-forth social media...
Listen To This: Elon And The Big, Ugly Bill
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Kate and Josh discuss Musk’s big loser energy,...
5 Points On Boasberg’s Big Alien Enemies Act Ruling
After being mostly scuttled by the Supreme Court, the original Alien Enemies Act case has re-entered the conversation. While the...
The Stench of Loser Stuck on Mr. Elon
We seem to be moving toward a bit more real animus between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Musk keeps attacking...

The Blowup We’ve All Been Waiting For
Elon-Trump, Welcome to the Thunderdome
Listen To This: Elon And The Big, Ugly Bill
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The Stench of Loser Stuck on Mr. Elon

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US sanctions four International Criminal Court judges
The U.S. on Thursday said it is sanctioning four International Criminal Court (ICC) judges via a part of a prior executive order President Trump issued in February. The four judges that the U.S. said it is sanctioning are Reine Alapini-Gansou, Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, Solomy Balungi Bossa and Beti Hohler, according to a fact...
Judge temporarily halts Trump’s proclamation blocking Harvard students’ visas
A federal judge late Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s proclamation that blocks visas for foreign students planning to attend Harvard University until after a hearing later this month. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs’s order came swiftly after Harvard rushed to court to ask the judge to immediately block Trump’s proclamation, which he signed a day earlier. Burroughs...
Marshall calls Musk feud a 'little side circus show' as Senate focuses on passing Trump bill
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) on Thursday referred to the feud between tech billionaire Elon Musk and President Trump as a circus sideshow as the Senate focuses on passing Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” “This is a little speed bump, it’s a little side circus show,” Marshall told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.” “We are absolutely...
Cruz calls Trump, Musk rift 'incredibly unfortunate'
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said the dramatic fallout between President Trump and his former special adviser, Elon Musk, is "incredibly unfortunate" after the two had a heated public exchange via social media posts on Thursday. During a Thursday interview with Sean Hannity on his Fox News show "Hannity," Cruz expressed his disappointment over the feud, which began...
Harris makes appearance at Los Angeles high school graduation
Former Vice President Harris made a surprise appearance at a Los Angeles high school graduation ceremony on Thursday as she weighs her future political options. Harris was at Compton High School graduation, where she did not address the crowd, but was engaging with and taking selfies with students. The former vice president was invited by...

From bromance to breakup: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump blew up
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Trump and Musk have a very public break up
Trump's travel ban includes Afghanistan, where thousands await U.S. resettlement
Trump threatens to cut Musk contracts as feud quickly escalates

Politico

State Democrats set up digital ad business with an influential private company. Now a key Dem official is becoming its CEO.
The Association of State Democratic Committees recommended TargetSmart as a one-stop shop. That's triggering complaints over a perceived conflict of interest.
Trump just took his public feud with Musk to a new level: Going after his money
Musk announced his company, SpaceX, will withdraw from service its Dragon spacecraft — critical to the American space program.
Democrats eye a villain-to-ally arc for Elon Musk
The messy public breakup between two MAGA heavyweights makes some Dems wonder if there's a role for them to play.
Nashville ICE raid reignites city’s turmoil with GOP leaders
The feud comes with real potential consequences for Nashville and other blue cities in red states being targeted over their immigration policies.
Democrats’ online problem: They’re not doing enough year-round
A new report argues Democrats and their allied media go too quiet in off years, in contrast with Republicans’ continued engagement.

The Guardian

Trump travel ban comes as little surprise amid barrage of draconian restrictions
President had cued up ban in January order and, despite exemptions, policy will separate families and harm people fleeing crisesDonald Trump’s first travel ban in 2017 had an immediate, explosive impact – spawning chaos at airports nationwide.This time around, the panic and chaos was already widespread by the time the president signed his proclamation Wednesday to fully or partially restrict foreign nationals from 19 countries from entering the United States. Continue reading...
What we know so far: Trump and Musk’s spectacular public blowup rocks Washington
Trump’s signature ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ precipitated an epic fallout between the US president and his former ally, billionaire Elon MuskImpeachment, Epstein and bitter acrimony: Trump and Musk joust in astonishing social media duelPresident Trump’s signature “Big Beautiful Bill” has precipitated an epic fallout between the US president and one of his closest allies, billionaire Elon Musk.The blowup played out publicly on social media, with both men using their respective platforms, X and Truth Social, to exchange criticisms.Donald Trump kicked off the fight during an Oval Office meeting with German chancellor Friedrich Merz. Asked about Elon Musk’s criticism of his “Big, Beautiful Bill”, the US president told reporters: “Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will any more.”Trump told reporters he was “very disappointed in Elon”, telling them: “He knew every aspect of this bill. He knew it better than almost anybody, and he never had a problem until right after he left. … He said the most beautiful things about me, and he hasn’t said bad about me personally, but I’m sure that’ll be next, but I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot.”Soon after Musk posted on X denying Trump’s statement, beginning a flurry of posts that stepped up his feud with the president. Musk wrote: “False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!”He went on to claim that without him Trump would have “lost the election” before bemoaning what he called “such ingratitude”.The president followed up by threatening to terminate Musk’s government subsidies and contracts, prompting a return threat from the SpaceX boss to decommission the Dragon spacecraft (which brought home astronauts stuck on the ISS for months), potentially throwing US space programmes into turmoil. Hours later Musk rescinded the threat.Musk also suggested Trump should be impeached and that JD Vance should replace Trump, warning that Trump’s global tariffs would “cause a recession in the second half of this year”.Musk went on to say on X the reason the Trump administration had not released the files into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was because they implicated the president. The White House called the assertions an “unfortunate episode”.Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump ally and Elon Musk critic, suggested there were grounds to deport the tech billionaire, who has US citizenship. Bannon told the New York Times: “They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately.”The spectacular blowout between Trump and Musk sent Tesla shares into free fall. They dropped by about 14.2% on Thursday at market close, wiping roughly $152bn off the value of the company. The decline in Tesla’s share price on Thursday knocked about $8.73bn off Musk’s total net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The reported $152bn drop also decreased the value of the company to roughly $900bn. Continue reading...
Judge blocks Trump’s ban on Harvard’s foreign students from entering the US
Harvard had asked the judge to block the ban, arguing Trump violated law by failing to back up claims students posed a threat to national securityA district judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard’s international students from entering the United States after the Ivy League university argued the move was illegal.Harvard had asked the judge, Allison Burrough, to block the ban, pending further litigation, arguing Trump had violated federal law by failing to back up his claims that the students posed a threat to national security. Continue reading...
Trump news at a glance: President’s union with Musk up in flames as feud publicly spirals
Musk had complained for weeks about Trump’s tax spending bill, but the feud has descended into an extraordinary exchange of insults. Key US politics stories from 5 June 2025The relationship between the richest man in the world and the most powerful one has spectacularly exploded, as Elon Musk publicly agreed Donald Trump should be impeached and linked him to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Musk stepped down from his role as a special government employee on 28 May after showing discontent with Trump’s tax spending bill, officially known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but had until this week stayed relatively restrained in his remarks. Continue reading...
Eyes on Senate Republicans as Trump and Musk feud over tax and spend bill
Lawmakers still weighing whether to pass ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ at root of rift between US president and tech bossMusk calls for Trump to be impeached as extraordinary feud escalatesAs the simmering tensions between Donald Trump and his once top adviser, the billionaire Elon Musk, erupted into public view on Thursday, eyes turned to the Republican lawmakers still weighing whether to pass the president’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill”.It was approved by just a single vote in the House of Representatives with no Democratic support last month, and nonpartisan analysts have found the sweeping legislation could add a whopping $2.4tn-$5tn to the $36.2tn US national debt and make deep cuts to Medicaid and food-assistance programs. Seen as an outline of Trump’s “America first” agenda, the bill would also extend tax cuts, fund beefed-up immigration enforcement and impose new work requirements for enrollees of federal safety net programs. Continue reading...

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