Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, June 6th, 2025. This is the excerpt.

Today, Musk and Trump take their feud to a new level, plus details on this week's travel ban,

and let's talk about invasive ants.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's beef reached a new level of personal jabs yesterday.

I caught up with USA Today, domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer for a look at their ramped-up feud.

Hello, sir. How's you going, Taylor? Good, good, Josh. Thanks for wrapping on on this.

So, you know, we've been keeping a close eye on this alliance between Trump and Musk for weeks.

And now this relationship really seems to be blowing up.

What's the latest as Trump threatens to cut billions in federal contracts with Musk companies?

Well, it's blowing up in spectacular fashion, Taylor.

Trump has threatened to end billions

of dollars in federal contracts that Musk's companies have or have had with the government. He's also

seeking billions more in contracts through SpaceX, through his AI company and so forth. And Trump,

in one of his tweets during this escalating feud, said, quote, the easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars is to terminate Elon's governmental subsidies and contracts.

He said, quote, I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it, unquote.

And of course, Musk replied and it kept escalating from there.

Absolutely. We'll get to some of those escalations. He also responded to this threat over

government contracts by saying SpaceX will pull back from some of its work. And, you know,

we know SpaceX does a lot of work for the government. What can you tell us here?

Musk said he's already going to be decommissioning their Dragon spacecraft, which does

payload deliveries to the International Space Station.

Musk has already taken steps, he says, to pull back some of the deliveries from his contracts,

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