President Donald Trump signed his signature legislation, which will kick millions of Americans off Medicaid and exponentially grow the national debt, into law Friday. The bill’s passage is a major victory for Trump, who urged Congressional Republicans to move the legislation by July Fourth. After days and nights spent persuading GOP holdouts in both the House and Senate, the bill passed Thursday after many of those Republicans caved.
The bill will increase funding for the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and features $1 trillion in cuts to federal food and health programs. You can read more about the legislation here.
‘TRAIN WRECK’: Trump Trashes Elon Musk And His New Political Party President Donald Trump dubbed former ally Elon Musk a “TRAIN WRECK” in a fiery Truth Social post, trashing the Tesla CEO after he announced that he was launching his own political party. “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” Trump wrote on Sunday.
“He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States.” Musk on Saturday had announced the formation of the America Party, a new political party he’s starting to purportedly combat “waste & graft.
” Musk’s announcement marked the latest salvo in a deepening feud with Trump after they fell out over the President’s recently passed tax bill, which the tech billionaire previously described as a “disgusting abomination.” While the two had appeared to reach a brief détente of sorts, escalating social media posts over the past week suggested that the animosity between the two was still very much alive.
Trump also referenced Republicans’ sunset of federal tax credits for electric vehicles, a move that could negatively affect Musk’s business. And he noted that he rejected “one of [Musk’s] close friends” for the role of NASA administrator, because he was a “blue blooded Democrat” and posed a conflict of interest. Musk, meanwhile, has threatened to back primary challenges for Republican lawmakers who supported the tax bill, which he’s repeatedly slammed for bloating the national debt. “The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds!” Trump wrote.
