3 h. ago Trump bill latest: House Republicans threaten to tank ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ after marathon vote passes welfare cuts

President’s megabill could face further opposition in House after narrowly passing Senate on Tuesday thanks to JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote

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17 h. ago Trump ally and mega investor launches PAC to go against Musk’s political ambitions

James Fishback, a former Department of Government Efficiency adviser, launched the FSD PAC Tuesday in response to Musk’s ‘antics’

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17 h. ago Trump and Musk’s feud blows up again with threats of Doge and deportation

Reignited quarrel centers around Musk’s opposition to the president’s signature tax bill as it moves through CongressDonald Trump and Elon Musk’s feud reignited this week with the former political allies trading sharp public threats of retribution. The blowup, centered around Musk’s opposition to Trump’s signature tax bill as it moves through Congress, ends a period of rapprochement between two of the world’s most powerful men.Musk posted escalating attacks against Trump’s sweeping spending bill on his social media platform X, calling the legislation “insane” and vowing to form a new political party if it passed late Monday. In response, Trump claimed he could “look into” deporting the South Africa-born billionaire, while also suggesting he could cut government subsidies for Musk’s companies or set the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) on its former leader. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Elon Musk now expresses regret for wild CPAC chainsaw display: ‘It lacked empathy’

‘Milei gave me the chainsaw backstage and I ran with it, but, in retrospect, it lacked empathy,’ Elon Musk tweeted when an X user said he looked like a ‘fool’ at the time.

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20 h. ago Tesla stock drops as Trump and Musk reignite their feud and president suggests deporting tech mogul

Trump says ‘monster’ DOGE ‘might have to go back and eat Elon’

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21 h. ago Trump bill live: Final vote on ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ expected soon as GOP Senate leader says he has the support to win

The Independent has been on Capitol Hill overnight to bring you all the latest updates as senators vote on an unlimited series of amendments to the president’s tax and spending megabill

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23 h. ago Trump bill live: Senate struggles to unite on president’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ as marathon vote continues

The Independent has been on Capitol Hill overnight to bring you all the latest updates as senators vote on an unlimited series of amendments to the president’s tax and spending megabill

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24 h. ago Trump says he will ‘take a look’ at deporting Musk as feud reaches new height

The world’s richest person has been criticizing Trump’s signature legislation as costing far too much

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24 h. ago Trump bill latest: President faces GOP holdout and Musk threat after record

The Independent has been on Capitol Hill overnight to bring you all the latest updates as senators vote on an unlimited series of amendments to the president’s tax and spending megabill

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28 h. ago Trump and Musk’s feud timeline: From Epstein allegations to clash over the Big, Beautiful Bill

From a golden key to the White House to a bitter public split – how Elon Musk and Donald Trump came to blows on their competing social media platforms

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28 h. ago Trump says without subsidies Musk would have to ‘head back home to South Africa’

‘No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE,’ Trump taunts in his late night tirade

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36 h. ago Elon goes nuclear on 'insane spending bill' with new pledge that could threaten Trump's Republican majority

Ex-Trump ally billionaire Elon Musk 's latest promise could throw a major wrench into Trump's governance plans for his second term.

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38 h. ago DOGE got access to millions of government records. It could benefit Musk’s companies for decades

Sensitive data held by NASA, the Department of Labor, and other federal bodies could advantage Elon Musk’s business empire for ‘many years’, according to a new investigation

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39 h. ago ‘If it’s the last thing I do’: Elon Musk promises to fund campaigns against Republicans who vote for Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ bill

Musk, who walked back some criticism of Trump after blow-up, reignited feud

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46 h. ago Musk will ‘do everything to damage’ Trump and is building political influence to rival MAGA, mogul’s former friend reveals

Former friend to Musk warned Trump that Elon Musk could seek revenge behind the scenes

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3 d. ago Trump threatens Senate Republicans who defy him as Elon Musk attacks ‘utterly insane’ megabill

Senate Republicans reveal mammoth 940-page bill loaded with president’s tax and immigration agenda

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3 d. ago Elon Musk calls Trump’s big bill ‘utterly insane and destructive’ as Senate debates

Passing the package, Musk said, would be ‘political suicide’ for the Republican partyThe billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Saturday criticized the latest version of Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly insane and destructive.“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote on Saturday as the Senate was scheduled to call a vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Elon Musk lashes out at Senate’s take on Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill as support comes down to the wire

Senate Republicans dropped the final text of the sprawling 940-page bill late on Friday evening

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3 d. ago Fresh blow for Musk’s DOGE as it loses power to award $500B in federal funds

US DOGE Service has lost control of government grants website in latest roadblock to trillions in cuts Elon Musk once hoped to achieve

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4 d. ago Starmer urged to act after Trump threatens Commonwealth ally Canada

Exclusive: Labour prime minister facing calls to act ahead of US President’s state visit to the UK, where he will meet King Charles

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