Talking Points Memo

Thoughts on the ‘Centrist’ Hoedown

I wanted to flag your attention to this Dave Weigel piece in Semafor. It’s about an event (“WelcomeFest”) put on by a centrist PAC called WelcomePAC, which is presenting itself as a kind of latter-day Democratic Leadership Council or punchy and centrist group focused on picking fights with the party’s…

The Hill

Trump and Musk’s relationship implodes

The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk rapidly disintegrated on Thursday, fulfilling predictions of a messy breakup that the world’s most powerful man and its richest man had defied for months. Trump told reporters in an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that he was “very surprised”…

Fox news

Trump ‘disappointed’ with Musk criticism of ‘big, beautiful bill,’ saying it’s related to EV incentive cuts

President Donald Trump said he’s ‘very disappointed’ with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, days after Musk’s official departure from spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  In recent days, Musk has been very critical of Trump’s massive tax and spending package dubbed the “big, beautiful, bill,” labeling the measure…