Elon Musk’s break with Trump; Boulder suspect’s family; steel and aluminum tariffs; and more
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Elon Musk called President Donald Trump's tax bill a disgusting abomination. |
| 0:09.9 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Wednesday, June 4th. |
| 0:16.3 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:21.1 | Musk officially left his government role as the head of the cost-cutting U.S. Doge |
| 0:26.2 | Service on Friday. |
| 0:28.3 | He has previously criticized the massive tax and immigration bill at the heart of Trump's |
| 0:33.5 | agenda known as the one big beautiful bill. |
| 0:37.0 | But he's done so in gentler terms. Yesterday, |
| 0:40.6 | he was a lot less gentle. Posting on his social media platform X, Musk wrote, |
| 0:47.0 | This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. |
| 0:53.8 | He added, shame on those who voted for it. |
| 0:56.5 | You know you did wrong. You know it. But White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said Musk's tweet |
| 1:03.1 | wouldn't change the president's mind. Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this |
| 1:08.6 | bill. It doesn't change the president's opinion. This is one big, beautiful bill, and he's sticking to it. |
| 1:13.2 | The House passed the tax bill last month, and the Senate took it up for consideration this week. |
| 1:19.0 | Republican leaders want it on Trump's desk for signing by July 4th. |
| 1:23.5 | The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the bill would increase the national debt |
| 1:28.4 | by $2.4 trillion over the next decade. |
| 1:36.5 | The family of the Colorado attack suspect was taken into custody. That's number two. On Sunday, |
| 1:46.5 | Mohamed Sabri Soleiman allegedly injured at least a dozen people. They were at a demonstration |
| 1:51.9 | in Boulder in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza. Solomon has been charged with a hate crime |
| 1:58.2 | and attempted murder. Now, federal officials are going after his |
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