Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, June 5th, 2025. This is the excerpt.

Today, Elon Musk tries to nuke Trump's tax plan. Plus, we take a look at this week's travel ban,

and let's talk about

drones. An explosive tweet fired off by President Donald Trump ally Elon Musk yesterday sent

a tremor through the White House as it aims to shore up Senate support for Trump's tax bill.

For more on that story, my colleague Dana Taylor spoke with with USA Today's senior Congress reporter Riley Beggin.

Thanks for coming on the show, Riley.

Of course.

Let's start with this very strongly worded tweet from Musk. What did it say exactly?

And what's the reaction been so far?

So what he posted on his platform X is that his followers, which there's more than 220 million of them,

should call their lawmakers and urge them to, quote, kill the bill. This is a reference to

this sweeping GOP tax bill that Republicans are working on. It's already passed the House and

it's here in the Senate. A lot of things still to work on here. So it's certainly a bomb that's been thrown in the middle of

this. And this comes on the heels of some strongly worded tweets from Musk Tuesday. What happened there?

On Tuesday, he called the bill, quote, disgusting abomination, also very strong words, and suggested

that Republicans who voted for the package should face primary challenges. And for context,

Elon Musk has put a lot of money into political races over the last cycle. He said he's done with

it, but this may indicate that he wants back in. The other thing I'll

mention is that, you know, when he says all the Republicans who voted for this package should

face primary challenges, that is all of them. All the Republicans in the House voted for this bill

except for just two. So it's certainly a sweeping demand. So Musk, on the one hand, has been a

...