June 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM EDT
Former Trump lawyer says MAGA 'knife-fighting' is about to get a lot uglier

When the relationship between President Donald Trump and Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk went sour, it did so very quickly. Trump and Musk stood side by side in the White House on Friday, May 30 when the president held a media event to thank Musk for his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And Trump told reporters that although Musk's work with DOGE had ended, he looked forward to working with him in the future.

June 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM EDT
Former Republican bashes Trump for 'spreading a conspiracy theory' to deceive his base

During Barack Obama's presidency, then-Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Illinois) was known for being a Tea Party firebrand. But the Never Trump conservative recently made a bombshell announcement: He joined the Democratic Party. This doesn't mean that Walsh is becoming liberal or progressive, but rather, reflects his view that Donald Trump's second presidency represents an existential threat to U.S. democracy -- and that liberals, progressives, conservatives and libertarians will have to work together, policy differences and all, in order to save the country from sliding into authoritarianism.

June 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM EDT
'I want them to stop': Why right-wing media is staying out of the Trump-Musk feud

When President Donald Trump and Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk turned against one another, it happened very quickly. On Friday, May 30, Trump held a White House media event to thank Musk for his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And he told reporters that even though Musk's work with DOGE was over, he looked forward to working with him in the future.

June 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT
Two unvaccinated babies die of whooping cough in KY as disease rise is predicted to continue

Two unvaccinated babies have died from pertussis, better known as whooping cough, in Kentucky in the last six months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced Friday. These two deaths in infants, whose mothers were also not vaccinated against pertussis, are the first whooping cough deaths in Kentucky since 2018, the department said.

June 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM EDT
Republicans axed the 'green new scam' -- but it's a huge benefit for red states

WASHINGTON -- Clean energy manufacturers and advocates say they're perplexed how the repeal of tax credits in President Donald Trump's "one big beautiful bill" will keep their domestic production lines humming across the United States, particularly in states that elected him to the Oval Office. While some Republicans have labeled the billions in tax credits a "green new scam," statistics reviewed by State Newsroom show the jobs and benefits would boost predominantly GOP-leaning states and congressional districts. Now the industry is already slowing amid Trump's back-and-forth tariff policy and mixed messaging on energy and manufacturing.

June 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM EDT
Their 'math never works': Former Republican rips Trump for 'blowing up the deficit'

Conservative ex-Republican David Jolly recently made a bombshell announcement: He is running for governor of Florida as a Democrat. Jolly was still a Republican when he was serving in the U.S. House of Representatives via Florida's 13th Congressional District from 2014-2017, but he was known for being a moderate conservative -- not a far-right culture warrior. And he expressed his disdain for President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement by leaving the GOP in 2018 and becoming an independent. After joining the Forward Party in 2022, Jolly switched to Democrat in April 2025.

June 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM EDT
John Roberts has a lot to answer for

The alpha-male d---- measuring contest between Trump and Musk isn't entertainment: it's the inevitable outcome of America's complete surrender to oligarchy. After centuries of democratic progress, we're watching the World's Richest Man ? and the World's Most Powerful Man ? battle for supremacy on social media like feuding warlords. How did the land of Lincoln and Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Kennedy, become a playground for billionaire sociopaths?

June 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM EDT
'We knew': Analyst who predicted worst Trump abuses says they're 'all coming to pass'

One Washington Post columnist predicted in 2024 that should he win election to a second term, Trump would launch an unprecedented attack on his political opponents and democracy itself. Now, he's chastising Americans for not doing more when they had the chance. In a Friday essay, the Post's Colbert I. King wrote that "Trump's own record, his musings on the campaign trail and the words of his inner circle" should have been all Americans needed in order to forecast everything the 47th president of the United States would do during his first months back in the White House. King recalled his July 3, 2024 column, in which he warned that a term-limited Trump would run roughshod on the Constitution with little to no interference from the other two branches of government.

June 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT
'Time to cut that off': Newsom suggests withholding federal taxes from Trump admin

California - the largest U.S. state by population and the world's fourth-largest economy by itself -- is the largest payer of federal taxes of all the states. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is now entertaining the idea of depriving President Donald Trump's administration of that revenue. Politico reported Friday that Newsom tweeted the suggestion in response to Trump floating the idea of terminating all federal. grants to California's state universities. The two-term Democrat pointed out that his state pays roughly $83 billion more in federal taxes than it gets back, according to a Rockefeller Institute analysis.

June 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM EDT
Nicolle Wallace reveals 'political stink bomb' Trump may set off with his military parade

President Donald Trump's planned military parade is just a week away, and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is pointing out that there's still not much information about whether one particular group of veterans will be featured. On the Friday episode of her show "Deadline: White House," Wallace interviewed Iraq War veteran Paul Rieckhoff about the parade, who viewed the entire concept as "an attack on our values" and "un-American." He pointed out that military parades are typically seen in totalitarian countries like North Korea, and opined that Trump was inappropriately making U.S. troops take part in a "political stunt."

June 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM EDT
13 House Republicans beg Senate to kill provision in Trump's bill -- despite voting for it

Scrutiny of the massive 1,037-page "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is now intensifying, with more than a dozen House Republicans who voted for its passage now urging their counterparts in the Senate to strip specific language from the legislation. NBC News' Sahil Kapur reported Friday that 13 Republicans who voted for the bill in May have sent a letter to Senate Republican leadership asking them to remove a provision in the legislation pertaining to clean energy projects in their districts. The letter, which was chiefly written by Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), said signatories were "deeply concerned" about provisions that would "abruptly terminate several credits" that had only recently been enacted. Other Republicans that signed the letter include Reps. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.), Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), Thomas Kean (R-N.J.), Young Kim (R-Calif.), Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.), Michael Lawler (R-N.Y.) and David Valadao (R-Calif.)

June 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM EDT
Fox host gets Trump advisor to admit he can't name one country that agreed to a trade deal

President Donald Trump declared April 2, "Liberation Day" and launched a series of erratic, wildly fluctuating, country-specific tariffs, citing a "national emergency" over the U.S. trade deficit""a trend that has persisted since 1975. He has also vowed to make 90 deals in 90 days, something experts say is an impossibility, given that trade negotiations often take months if not years to complete. The deadline is fast approaching: July 9, he has said.