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CNN's Harry Enten pointed out new polling data that shows Americans increasingly mistrust Elon Musk's role in Donald Trump's administration.

The tech billionaire spend nearly a quarter of a billion dollars of his own money on Trump's re-election and then gained a prominent perch in his presidency, from which he's made sweeping cuts across the federal government and its workforce, and polls show that his recommendations are deeply unpopular.

A child in Texas has died from measles, marking the first fatality in an outbreak that has infected more than 130 people, the state's health department announced Wednesday.

"The school-aged child who was not vaccinated was hospitalized in Lubbock last week and tested positive for measles," the department said in a news release.

The budget deal that was passed late Tuesday by the GOP-controlled House with the slimmest of margins could be the beginning of the end for the Republican party, an analyst told MSNBC Wednesday.

Speaking with host Joe Scarborough, Puck's John Heilemann said the combination of budget cuts, in addition to Elon Musk's DOGE efforts to destroy government programs, will push voters — including Republicans — over the edge.

"They're walking into a political buzzsaw here where if they think that the pushback they've seen so far at these town halls has been problematic, and it has been so bad that they're shutting them down, you can't imagine what they're about to hit," he told the "Morning Joe" host.

Top Mexican officials including the foreign and security ministers are heading to Washington seeking an agreement with President Donald Trump's administration to avoid sweeping tariffs, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday.

The visit by the entire security cabinet underlines the sense of urgency here to reach a deal before Trump's one-month deadline for progress tackling illegal migration and drug trafficking expires next Tuesday.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is now directly meddling in his newspaper's editorial page, as he sent out a notice on Wednesday that he would no longer publish editorials critical of "personal liberties and free markets."

The announcement marked Bezos' most brazen attempt yet to interfere in the Post's internal affairs and many journalists, including some who still work for the Post, firmly rejected it. Bezos also announced editorial page head David Shipley had quit rather than carry out his demands.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) disagreed with C-SPAN host Mimi Geerges after she repeated campaign promises from President Donald Trump, who the lawmaker called "a convicted felon and a liar."

During a Wednesday interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program, Watson Coleman argued that Republicans paved the way to slash America's social safety net.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt attacked the press on Wednesday morning with questions about the leader of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

On Tuesday afternoon, the White House confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Amy Gleason is the administrator of the DOGE initiative, which is tasked with slashing trillions from the federal budget. For weeks, Trump has been calling Elon Musk the head of DOGE. It was also announced on Tuesday that Trump's first Cabinet meeting would feature Musk.

Donald Trump remains publicly supportive of his billionaire benefactor Elon Musk, but some of the president's cabinet members and other administration officials are reportedly frustrated by the highly visible quasi-government official.

Musk's role in the administration isn't exactly clear, but voters have shown that they're not thrilled with the cuts he's making through the Trump-approved Department of Government Efficiency. Puck senior political correspondent Tara Palmieri told CNN that Republicans are quietly grumbling about the power the president has given the tech mogul.

President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, is reportedly pursuing plans that would wipe away most federal climate change rules with a single move.

According to Bloomberg, the EPA considered scrapping "its formal conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger the public, a move that would sweep away the legal foundation for regulations limiting planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil wells."

U.S. President Donald Trump holds his first cabinet meeting Wednesday, joined by billionaire adviser Elon Musk, who is in charge of radically downsizing the US government and wields more power than anyone else in Trump's inner circle.

Musk is not part of the cabinet and did not have to go through Senate confirmation.

The then wife of the French former surgeon on trial for allegedly assaulting or raping 299 patients was aware of his actions but "did nothing", the doctor's brother told the court Wednesday.

Retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has been on trial since Monday in one of the country's largest child sex abuse cases.

France's top court on Wednesday ordered a retrial of a Chilean accused of killing his Japanese ex-girlfriend in the eastern city of Besancon in 2016, ruling that investigators had withheld evidence from his defence team.

A lower court had sentenced Nicolas Zepeda in April 2022 to 28 years for killing Narumi Kurosaki, then aged 21, in December 2016.

David Shipley, who has spent the last two-and-a-half years running the Washington Post's editorial page, has stepped down from his position over new demands being made by Post owner Jeff Bezos.

In a letter sent out to staff members obtained by New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin, Bezos said that Shipley stepped down because he could not go along with Bezos's plan to ban editorials in his paper that were critical of "personal liberties and free markets," which he described as "two pillars" of American society.