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A veteran Florida reporter said he was bracing for president Donald Trump's inevitable response to Elon Musk's sharp criticism of his legislative priority.

The tech billionaire described Trump's sought-after "big beautiful bill" as a "disgusting abomination," saying it would explode the deficit, and Axios reporter Marc Caputo, who is well-sourced in Trumpworld, told "CNN News Central" that the president and Musk remain friends and allies, but their relationship has grown somewhat strained.

Billionaire Elon Musk's America political action committee (PAC) shared a warning to President Donald Trump's government hours after the former DOGE administrator slammed a spending bill as an "abomination."

In a post early Wednesday morning, America PAC suggested the government should be "fired" over Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."

Elon Musk inveighed against the so-called "big beautiful bill" president Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to approve, and CNN's Harry Enten handicapped the four-way power struggle between the key players.

The tech billionaire called the spending bill a "disgusting abomination" just days after formally exiting his White House role, saying the measure would explode the national debt and undo all of his accomplishments with the Department of Government Efficiency, and Enten broke down polling data to project what might come next.

A conservative commentator clashed with CNN's John Berman and another panelist over defense secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to remove the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk from a U.S. Navy ship.

The defense secretary is expected to announce the ship's renaming June 13 aboard the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned Navy ship, and the service branch is also reportedly considering renaming of other John Lewis-class oiler, a group of ships that are to be named after prominent civil rights leaders and activists, such as the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and USNS Harriet Tubman.

Demands that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is making on the various federal law enforcement agencies is starting to set off a revolt, NBC News is reporting,

Following up on her Wednesday report on how Miller and Donald Trump's war on immigrants is "reshaping" the focus of what crimes should be prioritized, NBC's Julia Ainsley told the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the abrasive Miller is increasingly angering other members of the administration.

For NBC News she wrote that in May, Miller "berated and threatened to fire senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials if they did not begin detaining 3,000 migrants a day," and has since demanded other agencies help out with his "Operation At Large."

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On MSNBC, the reporter noted other agencies feel they are being forced to drop more important investigations not related to immigrants in order to satisfy the Trump adviser and they are not pleased.

Noting plans to use members of the National Guard to round up immigrants, Ainsley added, "This comes a week after the infamous, now infamous meeting where Stephen Miller called in the leaders of ICE and screamed at them, yelled at them, threatened to start firing the bottom 10 percent of performers if they didn't get their arrest numbers to 3000 a day."

"But all of those law enforcement agencies obviously had other jobs," she elaborated. "And oftentimes if they were called into immigration, it would be because there was a real criminal element to this. As we understand from Miller's direction to ICE, is that they shouldn't just be focusing on criminals; they need to spread the net more widely."

CNN's Kate Bolduan was stunned by the level of dysfunction the Trump administration has injected into the nation's foremost disaster relief agency.

Current and former officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told CNN that communication and coordination between the White House and agency leaders has broken down to the point that one longtime agency leader resigned in frustration.

President Donald Trump has been privately fuming about the U.S. Supreme Court justices he nominated and publicly feuding with the conservative mainstay that recommended them, and a veteran reporter explained why the rift has developed.

The president has been griping for at least a year about justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and, especially, Amy Coney Barrett, according to multiple sources, and his anger has been fueled by right-wing allies like Laura Loomer, who have been telling Trump they're not in line with the MAGA movement, and NOTUS reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro told "CNN This Morning" what's fueling this dynamic.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Marc Caputo of Axios described the growing tension at the White House before Elon Musk finally left the administration and how aides to Donald Trump got in their parting shot.

He then added that the billionaire retaliated in kind.

President Donald Trump is currently finding himself between a rock and a hard place after having spent years promoting his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which his Make America Great Again (MAGA) base embraced, and now finding he can't deal with the Russian strongman as he tries to get a peace deal worked out over the Ukraine invasion.

According to one international relations expert, Trump's turning on Putin is not going over well with his supporters who he has programmed to hate Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Way Too Early" Wednesday morning, Elise Labott, the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council in Foreign Relations, claimed Trump's desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize is at loggerheads with a substantial number of his followers who want him to stick with Putin.

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What happens next, Labott told host Ali Velshi, could cause a major rift among the president's most loyal followers.

"This is another really fascinating dynamic where, listen, he tried with President Putin, you know," Labott began. "He wanted to be best friends. This love affair, he's a strong man. But he's he's seeing and he's even saying, you know, I think he's maybe he's stringing me along."

President Donald Trump is being roasted on multiple fronts this week – from Beijing to Capitol Hill – for his trade war and tariff threats.

In China, a fresh barrage of AI-generated videos mocking Trump’s policies have gone viral, including one featuring a robot named “Tariff” who self-destructs rather than carry out Trump’s trade orders, according to a new CNN report.

Donald Trump might have found untapped ways to monetize the presidency for his personal fortune — but wealthy businessmen who have hitched their wagons to the president tend to find themselves losing huge amounts of money, CNN data analyst Harry Enten told anchor Erin Burnett on Tuesday evening.

No better example of this exists, he said, than Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, who admitted to CNN's Donie O'Sullivan this week that his business has been essentially ruined by his promotion of pro-Trump election conspiracy theories.

New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro weighed in Tuesday on the escalating fallout between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump after the tech billionaire unleashed his harshest criticism yet of Trump’s signature “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”

"I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore," Musk wrote Tuesday on his X platform. "This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination."