Julia Jester
covering Musk/DOGE, politics, Washington, + beyond for @NBCNews • 2020 campaign embed • Signal: julesjester.25 • @Georgetown forever • Baltimore, hon 🦀
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Nnamdi Egwuonwu |Julia Jester |Jason Abbruzzese
May 28, 2025, 10:37 PM EDTElon Musk's days working at the White House are over. The billionaire Tesla CEO, enlisted by President Donald Trump to cut waste in the federal government, started offboarding from his role Wednesday night, a White House official told NBC News. Musk's move came a day after he criticized a Republican bill to fund much of Trump’s agenda. Musk commented on his exit Wednesday on X, his social media platform.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Nnamdi Egwuonwu |Julia Jester |Jason Abbruzzese
14 hours agoA Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting WashingtonThe billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy. Elon Musk took a swipe at President Trump’s signature domestic policy legislation, saying it would add to the national deficit. He complained to administration officials …9 hours agoPlaybook: Tariff bombshellWith help from Eli Okun and Bethany Irvine Good Thursday morning.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Nnamdi Egwuonwu |Julia Jester |Owen Skornik Hayes |Raquel Coronell Uribe
A large number of people gathered near the White House on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump's agenda, building upon a widespread effort by anti-Trump organizers to galvanize voters concerned with the administration's policies and significant use of executive authority.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Nnamdi Egwuonwu |Julia Jester
4 hours agoWhile presidents have been at odds before, there is often a sort of camaraderie among the small club of individuals who have served in the highest office in the land. Barack Obama urged Americans to resist President Donald Trump’s bullying. Joe Biden warned that Trump is wrecking the “sacred …
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Julia Jester
An immigration judge has denied bond to Rümeysa Öztürk, her lawyers said Thursday, the latest development in the case of the Tufts University student from Turkey whose arrest on a Massachusetts sidewalk was captured in a viral video. Öztürk, 30, was on her way to meet friends to break the Ramadan fast on March 25 when she was surrounded and detained by plain-clothed immigration agents in Somerville, a Boston suburb. She was then taken to an immigration detention center in Louisiana.
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Elon Musk calls for Congress to start over with *entirely new legislation* after the House passed President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" POTUS has been relatively quiet on Musk's repeated public criticisms of the GOP pkg; reax from congressional Republicans has been mixed.
A new spending bill should be drafted that doesn’t massively grow the deficit and increase the debt ceiling by 5 TRILLION DOLLARS