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‘Clash of the Titans’: Inside the Trump-Musk implosion

1 day ago | semafor.com | Shelby Talcott |Burgess Everett

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s messy breakup could have long-term ramifications for the Republican Party’s congressional primaries — as well as the Trump administration’s ties to Musk’s companies and his allies. Still, senior Republicans are confident it won’t disrupt the Republican Party’s central focus this summer: Trump’s tax and spending megabill. “We’re a long ways down the trail and we know what we have to do,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Thursday afternoon.
The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale

1 day ago | semafor.com | Gina Chua

Recent remarkable and rapid improvements in vibe coding — using AI systems to write programs — are upending Silicon Valley’s balance of power, away from talented developers and towards startup founders with a good idea. But they will also remake the economics of scale and the corporate processes built around husbanding and prioritizing scarce tech resources.
‘Destroy the Ring’: Trump’s Palantir deal alarms Hill Republicans

1 day ago | semafor.com | Eleanor Mueller

Republican privacy advocates in Congress are criticizing the Trump administration’s work with the tech giant Palantir to analyze what could become a massive pool of government data on Americans. President Donald Trump signed an order in March that directed federal agencies to remove “unnecessary barriers” to data consolidation.
Africa can unlock $4 trillion to finance vital infrastructure: Report

1 day ago | semafor.com | Alexander O. Onukwue

Africa can boost the pace of its much-needed infrastructure drive by unlocking at least $4 trillion from a wide range of fragmented and under-utilized domestic sources, new research by one of the continent’s leading investors said.
Dem polling suggests how to talk about the GOP megabill

1 day ago | semafor.com | Eleanor Mueller

House and Senate Democrats’ campaign arms teamed up on new internal polling that surveyed almost 20,000 voters to test how lawmakers can run on Republicans’ sprawling tax-and-spending bill in 2026. The results: “Messages that highlight GOP plans to cut key programs like Medicare and Medicaid … are consistently the most effective,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wrote in a memo shared with Semafor.
Bipartisan House group urges Fed, OCC to revamp leverage rules

1 day ago | semafor.com | Eleanor Mueller

Top lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee are asking regulators to consider handing Wall Street a big win by loosening requirements for how much cash banks must set aside to offset potential losses.
Senate Republican pushes to include crypto language in tax-and-spending bill

1 day ago | semafor.com | Eleanor Mueller |Burgess Everett

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., is pushing to add language to her party’s tax-and-spending bill that would revamp how the US taxes cryptocurrency. The Wyoming Republican told Semafor she sent Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo tax-related provisions of her regulatory overhaul with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — including a proposal to apply the wash-sale rule to crypto, which could rake in billions of dollars in revenue, and another to absolve bitcoin miners from reporting gains and losses.
White House pushes past its irritation with Musk amid ‘big, beautiful’ spat

2 days ago | semafor.com | Shelby Talcott

President Donald Trump and White House aides are irritated with Elon Musk’s growing attacks on Republicans’ megabill — but they’re also navigating the drama with extra caution. Musk took officials by surprise with what’s become a two-day-plus social media campaign against the “big, beautiful bill” that Trump is focused on getting through Congress.
Republican senators grapple with Wall Street worries over megabill’s retaliatory tax

2 days ago | semafor.com | Burgess Everett |Eleanor Mueller

Senate Republicans have a new headache as they wrangle President Donald Trump’s megabill toward a final vote: panic on Wall Street over its proposed new retaliatory tax on certain foreign investment in the US. Corporate interests are pushing back against the bill’s escalating taxes against foreign investors from countries that impose “discriminatory” taxes on multinational business.
Nigerian drone maker, Terra Industries, beats Israeli firm to security contract

2 days ago | semafor.com | Alexander O. Onukwue

Nigerian drone startup Terra Industries beat out a rival bid from an Israeli consortium to provide security for two hydropower plants in a $1.2 million contract. Terra Industries, earlier called TerraHaptix,will supply a dozen drones and more than 35 towers for a local security company to boost surveillance of the plants, the company’s 22-year-old chief executive Nathan Nwachuku told Semafor.