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15 hours ago | thehill.com | Brett Samuels

The White House on Wednesday brushed off a reported shouting match between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in the West Wing, chalking it up to disagreements among officials. “There are disagreements among the president’s staff and Cabinet sometimes, but we think that’s part of the healthy debate process,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters when asked about the reported dust up.

16 hours ago | thehill.com | Miranda Nazzaro |Julia Shapero

Musk tries to reverse course at Tesla Elon Musk is in damage control mode at Tesla as the company’s disappointing earnings force the tech billionaire to reevaluate his focus. Faced with a 71 percent plunge in first-quarter earnings, the Tesla CEO tried to assure investors Tuesday he will soon spend less time working on President Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost-cutting efforts and focus more on his company.

18 hours ago | thehill.com | Julia Shapero

President Trump will attend a dinner next month with the top holders of his meme coin, the token’s official website announced Wednesday. The dinner with the president will be available to the top 220 holders of $TRUMP, the meme coin he unveiled shortly before taking office in January. The event, scheduled for May 22 at Trump’s golf club near Washington, D.C., — is touted as an opportunity to hear “first-hand” from Trump about the future of cryptocurrency.

20 hours ago | thehill.com | Julia Mueller

Just 15 percent of young Americans say they think the country is headed in the right direction, according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll. The poll released Wednesday found 51 percent of Americans under 30 say the U.S. is on the wrong track and 31 percent are unsure, “underscoring a generation defined by political pessimism and uncertainty,” researchers at the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School said. The remaining 3 percent declined to answer.

21 hours ago | thehill.com | Brett Samuels

Vice President Vance on Wednesday reflected on his meeting with Pope Francis, which came just hours before the pontiff died earlier this week. “I thought a lot about that. It’s pretty crazy, actually,” Vance told reporters in India when asked about being one of the last officials to meet with the Pope. “Obviously, when I saw him, I didn’t know that he had less than 24 hours still on this Earth,” Vance added. “I think it was a great blessing. But, you know, he saw a lot of people.