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Donald Trump said Thursday that the driving force behind the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, will likely be leaving the administration in “a few months.”
From The Daily Beast
The White House said on Wednesday that tech billionaire Elon Musk will stay on to complete his mission to slash government spending and downsize the federal workforce, dismissing media reports that h...
From Reuters
Elon Musk recently suggested that he will be done with his work in the near future.
From U.S. News & World Report
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The White House has fired multiple administration officials, including at least three National Security Council staffers, three sources familiar with the move told CNN.
The White House on Thursday was standing firmly behind President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff rollout despite markets nosediving, businesses recoiling and foreign leaders threatening retaliation.
A group representing American egg farmers said it had discussions about the matter, but ultimately, it won’t scramble its plans to supply roughly 30,000 eggs for the event.
It comes a day after Trump announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others — that threaten to dismantle much of the architecture of the global economy and trigger broader trade wars.
The firings come as the right-wing conspiracy theorist raised concerns to President Trump about the allegiance of some of his staff.
Kirkland & Ellis, the largest U.S. law firm by revenue, is in talks with the White House to avoid an executive order similar to those levied against several of its rivals, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The news of the firings comes a day after an Oval Office meeting between Trump and right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who privately called on the president to fire some NSC staffers.
White House officials have circulated internal talking points telling surrogates that President Donald Trump’s new global tariff regime should not be characterized as a starting point for negotiations, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
The absence of Russia on the president’s new list of countries that he’ll hit with steep tariffs did not go unnoticed on social media. Critics were quick to accuse Trump of kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Trump has for years expressed his admiration of.
Aides struggled to satisfy the president’s competing priorities before settling on a plan to both raise revenue and boost corporate onshoring.
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