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House Democrats are pressing the Justice Department and FBI to confirm whether Elon Musk’s explosive claim that Donald Trump appears in the Jeffrey Epstein files is true, Axios reported Thursday.

In a letter first obtained by Axios, Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and Robert Garcia (D-CA) asked Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to “immediately clarify” whether the president is named in the files – a claim Musk aired in a social media post Thursday.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's flagship businesses took a severe hit amid his public fight with President Donald Trump, as Tesla's stock slid over 14 points, and SpaceX fell almost 5 points. But it's even worse than that, Bloomberg reported, as all of this had a devastating impact on Musk's personal net worth.

"Minute by minute, post by post, Elon Musk’s very public, extremely online feud with President Donald Trump sliced into his vaunted status as the world’s richest person," reported Dylan Sloan and Tom Maloney. "The final damage at day’s end: $34 billion erased from his personal net worth, the second-largest loss ever in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index of the 500 wealthiest people on the planet. The only bigger one: his own wipeout in November 2021."

Longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni blasted what he called Trumpworld’s “pageantry of peculiarity” in a blistering opinion piece ripping top administration officials.

In the new op-ed out Thursday, Bruni zeroed in on former Secret Service agent turned far-right MAGA podcaster Dan Bongino, who now serves as deputy director of the FBI – a role Bruni said he was “bafflingly given.”

President Donald Trump's political orbit is in total disarray as he wages war with his longtime ally, tech billionaire Elon Musk, over the future of his "big, beautiful bill" that extends tax cuts for almost exclusively wealthy earners while cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps, and clean energy subsidies.

But speaking on CNN, Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN), a hard-MAGA lawmaker who recently gained infamy for telling a fired government worker they deserved it, insists that all of this is actually a winning day for the president.

The National Security Agency quietly considered a major leadership shake-up this week before abruptly backing away from the plan – a move that “raised eyebrows” among allies of President Donald Trump, Politico reported Thursday.

At the center of the now-scuttled proposal was a new agency-wide chief operating officer role – a plan that was reportedly discussed by top NSA officials not appointed by Trump.

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from arresting Columbia University student Yunseo Chung after a scathing hearing attacking the government's conduct in the case, Adam Klasfeld reported for All Rise News on Thursday.

"For nearly three months, the Department of Homeland Security has unsuccessfully tried to find and arrest Chung for deportation proceedings," the report noted, despite her having no criminal accusations apart from a now-dismissed misdemeanor charge related to her involvement in protests. "A federal judge last week proposed a solution to break the impasse. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can simply serve her attorneys with a notice to appear, initiating Chung’s deportation proceedings — while preventing what the judge called an unnecessary and traumatizing arrest."

Donald Trump’s longtime far-right ally Steve Bannon torched Elon Musk on Thursday, accusing the tech billionaire of betraying the president and plotting with Democrats to take down Trump.

On his “War Room” podcast, the MAGA influencer predicted Musk would throw his support – and money – behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats.

The fiery back-and-forth falling out between President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk that escalated on Thursday reveals a core fear that the president has in this moment, former Trump White House communications strategist Alyssa Farah Griffin told a CNN panel.

This followed one of Griffin's co-panelists, longtime Trump loyalist and right-wing commentator Scott Jennings, expressing the hope that Musk, who blew up the feud in part over his rage at the fiscal insolvency of the GOP's "big, beautiful bill" to extend tax cuts, could instill deficit discipline in the party.

Multiple Republican members of the House admitted they “didn’t know” part of what was in the House spending bill, according to a NOTUS report.

“Congressman Mike Flood (R-NE) told his constituents at a town hall last week he didn’t know that the bill would limit judges’ power to hold people in contempt for violating court orders, saying he wouldn’t have supported it if he knew,” the outlet said. “When approached by NOTUS about his comments Wednesday, he said to contact his office.

CNBC is reporting that amid the feud between President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the electric vehicle company lost its largest market cap of all time.

Raw Story reported after the close of the stock market on Thursday, Tesla stock rallied a little after falling 17.5% to close at over 14%. That translates into a significant financial loss for the company.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s Administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is facing sharp criticism after suggesting that the more than ten million people projected to lose their healthcare under the current Republican budget bill do not matter.

The legislation as written requires that many Medicaid users work and provide documentation that they have worked at least 80 hours each month, or be kicked off the critical safety net. Many Republicans have been suggesting Medicaid users are intentionally not working so they can collect federal government benefits like Medicaid. But many Medicaid users do work, and many cannot find jobs.