Trump and Musk Break Up, Tariffs Raise $70 billion, ICE Detention Conditions

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A rift between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk escalated on Thursday with the two trading barbs on their respective social media platforms. Reports from the Treasury Department show Trump's tariffs have raised nearly 70-billion dollars so far this year. And, migrant detainees staged a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement run facility in Miami.

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0:00.0	What happens when you have a friend and then you break up?
0:05.1	I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot.
0:08.3	Elon Musk said the president's budget plan borrowed too much. President Trump talked of cutting Musk's contracts.
0:14.1	Musk said, okay, I'm Steve Inskeep, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.6	The Treasury Department estimates President Trump's tariffs brought in $70 billion for the government,
0:26.9	which may be good, but who paid?
0:29.3	That revenue comes from somewhere.
0:31.4	It's a tax on the backs of the people that are importing.
0:35.2	Also, migrants at a detention facility lined up in a courtyard so that they spelled S-O-S.
0:41.7	I've heard people use the word starving.
0:44.5	What's known about their condition.
0:46.3	Stay with us.
0:47.0	We've got the news you need to start your day.
1:04.2	On The Indicator from Planet Money podcast, we're here to help you make sense of the economic news from Trump's tariffs.
1:11.9	It's called in game theory a trigger strategy, or sometimes called grim trigger, which sort of has a cowboy-esque ring to it.
1:15.0	To what exactly a sovereign wealth fund is.
1:19.5	For Insight every weekday, listen to NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money.
1:27.4	This is the moment in the relationship where you go back through the old pictures and cry, or maybe edit the other
1:28.9	person out. Elon Musk and President Trump had seemed inseparable for months. Musk brought one of
1:36.4	his many children, X, to the White House. Well, if you don't have a feedback with X, we'd have to.
1:43.1	Sorry. He turned up casually dressed if you... Sorry.
1:46.5	He turned up casually dressed at cabinet meetings.
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