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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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Friday, June 6. The seven stories you need to know today.
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0:00.0 | Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. |
0:07.8 | I don't know if we'll anymore. |
0:09.6 | Things are getting messy in the breakup between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. |
0:15.2 | That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post. |
0:18.7 | I'm Hannah Jewell. |
0:19.9 | It's Friday, June 6th. Let's get you caught up |
0:22.7 | with today's seven stories. The alliance between the world's most powerful person and the |
0:31.8 | world's richest person collapsed in spectacular fashion yesterday. First, a refresher. During President Trump's |
0:39.8 | re-election campaign, Elon Musk emerged as his constant companion and biggest donor. After the inauguration, |
0:47.6 | Musk stuck around as the president's self-proclaimed first buddy. He led the U.S. Doge Service |
0:53.6 | to make dramatic cuts to the federal |
0:55.7 | workforce and government spending. That gig ended last Friday with an Oval Office farewell. |
1:02.0 | But since then, Musk has spoken out against Trump's big tax and spending bill. On Tuesday, |
1:08.8 | he called it a disgusting abomination. On Wednesday, he doubled down, |
1:13.9 | urging Congress to kill the bill. Yesterday, Trump responded to Musk's change in tune from the |
1:20.2 | Oval Office. And if you saw the statements he made about me, which I'm sure you can get very easily, |
1:25.0 | it's very fresh on tape. He said the most beautiful things |
1:29.1 | about me. And he hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next. But I'm very |
1:34.4 | disappointed in Elon. And I've helped Elon a lot. Then things got really ugly, with potentially |
1:40.0 | big consequences for the country. Musk said there should be a new political party. |
1:46.1 | Then Trump threatened to cancel Musk's government contracts and subsidies. |
1:50.7 | Then Musk claimed that Trump appears in files linked to the investigation of convicted sex |
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