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Obama says Republicans are putting millions of Americans’ healthcare at risk

Massachusetts students and teachers protest teen’s ‘inhumane’ arrest by Ice

Fact-checking by PolitiFact

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

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
5 Points On Boasberg’s Big Alien Enemies Act Ruling
The Stench of Loser Stuck on Mr. Elon

NPR

The Hill

Democrats ask Bondi for Epstein files after Musk's Trump allegation
Two senior House Democrats are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi for the timeline of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) declassification and release of the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein’s files after tech billionaire Elon Musk accused President Trump of being named in the documents. Musk, amidst a heated, public feud with Trump that...
Illinois Republican mistakes Sikh for Muslim, calls him delivering prayer in House ‘deeply troubling’
Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said it was "deeply disturbing" that a Sikh delivered a prayer in the House chamber on Friday — after apparently mistaking him for a Muslim man. The since-deleted post Friday morning sparked immediate bipartisan criticism. “It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives...
Hegseth could be 'on the hook' for hundreds of millions on Qatari jet, says Raskin
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that he could be “on the hook” for hundreds of millions of dollars for having accepted a luxury jet from the Qatari government. In a letter sent Wednesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued that Hegseth’s formal acceptance of the Boeing 747 jetliner...
Live updates: Musk, Trump change subject day after nasty feud
President Trump and Elon Musk both seem to be moving on after their ugly public feud on Thursday that seemed to tear up their alliance. Trump said Friday he did not want to talk with Musk on the phone and focused his social media remarks on jobs and the economy. Musk separately offered a small...
Washington D.C. hosts WorldPride: What to know about weekend bash
For the first time, WorldPride has descended on Washington D.C., as the city marks its 50-year anniversary of Pride celebrations. The Capital Pride parade will kick off at 2 p.m. on Saturday at 14th St. and T St. NW, according to The Capital Pride Alliance (CPA), a nonprofit organization promoting LGBTQ+ rights and organizing the...

DHS memo details how National Guard troops will be used for immigration enforcement
RFK Jr. is shrinking the agency that works on mental illness and addiction
Trump and Musk's breakup. And, ICE detention centers face serious overcrowding
No 'going back' for Elon Musk after calling for Trump impeachment, says Steve Bannon
Public feud erupts between President Trump and former adviser Elon Musk

Politico

Elon Musk goes on a warpath against Trump and the GOP
The fallout from the very public breakup could engulf Republican hopes of holding onto the House.
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
7 Republicans stuck in the middle of the Trump-Musk divorce
They may need to pick a side.
State Democrats set up a 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.

The Guardian

Money can’t buy him love: Republicans give Elon Musk the cold shoulder
The billionaire’s acrimonious blow-up with Trump is a time to choose sides – and legislators are toeing the Maga lineUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk may believe his money bought the presidential election and the House of the Representatives for the Republicans. But he is discovering painfully and quickly that it has not bought him love, loyalty or even fear among many GOP members of Congress on Capitol Hill.Faced with the choice of siding with Musk, the world’s richest man, or Donald Trump, after the two staged a public relationship breakdown for the ages on Thursday, most Republicans went with the man in the Oval Office, who has shown an unerring grasp of the tactics of political intimidation and who remains the world’s most powerful figure even without the boss of Tesla and SpaceX by his side. Continue reading...
The Guardian view on the Trump-Musk feud: we can’t rely on outsized egos to end oligopoly | Editorial
The row between the US president and his billionaire ex-buddy may seem entertaining, but wealth and power are still dangerously mergedIt would have taken a heart of stone to watch the death of the Trump-Musk bromance without laughing. Democrats passed the popcorn on Thursday night as the alliance between the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest imploded via posts on their respective social media platforms.Less than a week ago they attempted a conscious uncoupling in the Oval Office. Then Elon Musk’s attacks on Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and spending plan escalated to full-scale denunciation of a “disgusting abomination” – objecting to its effect on the deficit, not the fact it snatches essential support from the poor and hands $1.1tn in tax cuts to the rich. Continue reading...
Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other – united in their ability to trash their own brands | Jonathan Freedland
What one did to Twitter and Tesla, the other is doing to the United States of America. Their feud is revealing a fatal flaw in the Maga projectThe scriptwriters of Trump: the Soap Opera are slipping. The latest plot development – the epic falling-out between the title character and his best buddy, Elon Musk – was so predictable, and indeed predicted, that it counts as the opposite of a twist. Still, surprise can be overrated. Watching the two men – one the richest in the world, the other the most powerful – turn on each other in a series of ever-more venomous posts on their respective social media platforms has been entertainment of the highest order. X v Truth: it could be a Marvel blockbuster.But this is more than mere popcorn fodder. Even if they eventually patch things up, the rift between the president and Musk has exposed a divide inside the contemporary right, in the US and beyond – and a fatal flaw of the Trump project.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Donald Trump says Elon Musk has ‘lost his mind’ and dismisses peace offering
Trump says he’s ‘not particularly’ interested in reconciling with Musk, who reportedly wanted to speak to presidentUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump has accused Elon Musk of “losing his mind” as the dramatic breakdown between America’s most powerful person and the world’s richest person escalated into a full-blown feud that could have seismic political and economic consequences.In a series of phone calls to US media on Friday morning, Trump snapped back at Musk, after the tech mogul and Republican financier launched an extraordinary social media attack on the president the day before, which ended with him accusing Trump of being named in the so-called “Epstein files” – documents related to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...
Martin Rowson on Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s social media row – cartoon
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