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“There’s a point at which time Elon’s gotta have to leave,” Trump told reporters, adding he thinks that time could arrive in “a few months.”
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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...
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Elon Musk recently suggested that he will be done with his work in the near future.
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The White House has said it will use real eggs in its annual Easter Egg Roll, despite historically high prices and a shortage that the industry is blaming on the latest outbreak of the avian flu.
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.
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 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.
The firings come as the right-wing conspiracy theorist raised concerns to President Trump about the allegiance of some of his staff.
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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.
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.
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.