Paige Lavender

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Paige Lavender

President Donald Trump said billionaire Elon Musk would face “serious consequences” if he threw his support behind Democrats running against Republican backers of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill. Trump issued the threat in a phone interview with NBC on Saturday, where he also noted he has no intention of speaking to Musk after their public falling out. The president said he “would assume” the relationship between the two is over. “I’m too busy doing other things,” he told NBC.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Paige Lavender

Vice President JD Vance said Elon Musk made a critical error attacking President Donald Trump and his so-called Big Beautiful Bill. “I think it’s a huge mistake for him to go after the president like that,” Vance told podcaster and comedian Theo Von in an interview released Friday.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Paige Lavender

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected President Donald Trump’s idea that Russia and Ukraine are like kids at the playground who would be better off fighting for a while before being pulled apart. “We are not kids with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin at the playground in the park,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Andy Campbell |Jennifer Bendery |Paige Lavender

The once-close relationship between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk has soured considerably over Trump’s “big beautiful bill” after Musk announced he was leaving his post under Trump and called the president’s sweeping tax measure a “disgusting abomination.”The pair has spent much of the week taking increasingly aggressive pot shots at each other in social media posts and press appearances.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Paige Lavender

Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia, died Wednesday morning at 75. He “passed away peacefully at his home this morning surrounded by family,” Connolly’s family said in a statement. In November, Connolly announced he’d been diagnosed with esophageal cancer and would take part in chemotherapy and immunotherapy.