Tesla Shares Drop on $25 Billion AI Spending Plan
WSJ What’s News
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. |
| 0:05.0 | It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. |
| 0:11.3 | That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. |
| 0:17.9 | Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries. |
| 0:26.8 | The Senate funds ICE and Border Patrol, pushing past Democratic calls to reform how |
| 0:32.6 | immigration enforcement is carried out. Plus, another shakeup of the Pentagon's top brass, and the NIMBY |
| 0:39.2 | movement finds its next target. Americans are hiding lots of stuff in self-storage facilities, |
| 0:45.6 | but now we have to hide the self-storage facilities. It's Thursday, April 23rd. I'm Luke Vargas for |
| 0:50.6 | the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top |
| 0:54.8 | headlines and business stories moving your world today. |
| 1:01.0 | We begin in Washington, where senators pulling an all-nighter have pushed forward a budget |
| 1:06.0 | plan to fund DHS in spite of Democratic opposition and calls for restrictions on enforcement operations. |
| 1:13.2 | The bill, which passed by a 50 to 48 margin, will hand ICE and border patrol an additional |
| 1:18.5 | $70 billion and see them funded through the end of Trump's term. The bill now heads to the House. |
| 1:25.5 | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired Navy Secretary John Phelan |
| 1:30.4 | in the latest shakeup at the Pentagon after Hegseth's dismissal of nearly two dozen military |
| 1:35.4 | officers and amid an ongoing feud with the Secretary of the Army. Phelan didn't immediately |
| 1:41.1 | respond to a request for comment. Joining me with more is journal Washington coverage chief, Damian Palletta. |
| 1:47.7 | Damian, we report that Pentagon officials told congressional aides that Hegset had fired |
| 1:52.1 | Phelan because he felt he wasn't moving quickly enough on President Trump's shipbuilding priorities. |
| 1:58.8 | That priority will now fall on current Navy Undersecretary, |
| 2:02.0 | Hongkow, who's being elevated to secretary. What do we need to know about all this? |
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