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NPR and WAMU. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump and

Elon Musk's public spat is growing. Musk continues to call for lawmakers to kill Trump's huge

spending and tax cut package that's currently in the Senate, saying it will cause a recession this year.

Trump says Musk knew all about the bill, which Musk denies, and he says he may cancel the federal contracts for Musk's companies.

And that prompted Musk to say his space X company will immediately start to decommission

its dragon spacecraft. And peers Daniel Kurtzleben has more. There have been business consequences.

Shares of Tesla plummeted this afternoon. Another point is that there are very tight margins to pass

that big, beautiful bill on Capitol Hill. So if Musk has some pull with even a few

Republicans, that could very much hurt that bill's chances of passing. But there's one more really

important point here. Amid all of this today, Musk posted, quote, without me, Trump would have

lost the election. Now that's a reminder. He's saying that he dumped more than a quarter of a billion

dollars into the 2024 election. NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben reporting. Secretary of State,

Marco Rubio is imposing sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court for their

role in the case against Israel's prime minister and investigations into Afghanistan.

And Pierce Michelle Kellerman has more.

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