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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The public feud between President

Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk is escalating fast. Musk has been slamming Trump and the

Republicans' big spending bill that's squeaked by the House and is now in the Senate, calling on

his supporters to kill the bill. In just the past few hours,

he says Trump wouldn't be in office and Republicans wouldn't control both chambers of Congress

without his help, and that Trump's tariffs will cause a recession this year. Musk also says

on X that Trump is in the Jeffrey Epstein files, and that's the reason they haven't been made public.

Epstein is the convicted sex trafficker who killed himself in a New York jail.

Trump, meanwhile, says he's disappointed in Musk and is threatening cuts to his businesses.

The New York Times reports that last year, Musk's companies were promised $3 billion

across nearly 100 different contracts with 17 federal agencies. And Pierre Stephen Fowler has more.

The world's richest man is using the social media site he owns to blast the president's massive spending

proposal that would increase the federal deficit. The world's most powerful man has an even bigger

megaphone, the Oval Office. He's posting on his social media site that the easiest way to

save money would be terminate federal contracts with Musk's companies. Tesla stock took a nose dive

shortly after Trump's post, and Musk's criticism adds a more vocal obstacle to passage of what

Trump and his allies called the Big Beautiful Bill. Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

Meanwhile, Musk just posted that in light of Trump's comments on canceling government

contracts for his companies, Space X will immediately start decommissioning its dragon

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