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In today’s edition, we explore how Elon Musk adds fuel to the fire for the republican skeptics of the “Big and Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump. In addition, Andrea Mitchell plunges into the way Trump fundamentally reshapes the post-war Alliance between the United States and Europe.

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Elon Musk encourages criticism from the GOP of the great bill of Trump

Elon Musk took part of the wind of the sails of the “big and beautiful bill” while he moved to the Senate next week after having exceeded the room by the narrowest margins.

In an interview “Sunday morning” from CBS This will be broadcast in its entirety this Sunday, Musk said that it was “disappointed” that the massive internal policy package would increase the deficit and said that it “undermines” the work of the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government.

“I think that an invoice can be large or that it can be beautiful, I do not know if it can be both,” said Musk.

This is not the first time that Musk broke with President Donald Trump on a major issue. (See her Prices comments last month). Nor is it the first time that Musk has launched a key in the middle of the high issues legislating on Capitol Hill. (See her Comments on a government financing bill at the end of last year.)

Criticism: Musk suggested that he will come back from his role of administration to put his attention to the private sector. But his comments were still used to embrace the conservative criticisms of the package of several dollars, because the GOP faces a tight chronology and a small margin for the error for the final passage.

Representative Warren Davison of Ohio, one of only two Republicans to have voted against the bill in the House last week, said Musk’s interview in response on x: “Hopefully the Senate will succeed with the major bill on the major bill where the Chamber has missed the moment. Do not expect that someone else will one day cut deficits, know that this congress was done.”

Sense. RAND PAUL Kentucky, Ron Johnson Wisconsin and Mike Lee Utah has reiterated their problems with the bill, which revolves around the impact of the deficit. The Congress Budget Office projected The legislation would add 2.3 billions of dollars to the federal deficit over 10 years.

“This bill is not yet concluded,” said Lee. “The Senate version will be more aggressive.”

The Republicans can only afford three defections in the Senate, and any change they brought there was to return by the House before the bill could go to Trump’s office, which they aim to do by July 4.

Defense: Trump’s allies quickly rushed to defend the package, which is a delicate negotiations between the Republicans with a large majority of houses.

Deputy Chief of White House Stephen Miller and lecturer of the room Mike JohnsonR-La., Took place to say that their efforts to reduce the size of the government will extend beyond the “great and beautiful bill”. They said they would seek to reduce expenses through a cancellation package – a money case that Congress has already affected – and through the regular budgetary process for the 2026 financial year.

“The room is impatient and ready to act on Doge’s conclusions so that we can deliver even more cuts to the Grand Government than President Trump wants and the American people demand,” said Johnson.

What Trump says: Asked about Musk’s criticism, Trump said he was “Not satisfied with certain aspects” of the bill, but “delighted by other aspects.”

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Heat of the town hall: Gop reps. Mike flood Nebraska and Ashley Hinson Iowa has faced intense interrogations and wings to town halls this week to support the “big and beautiful bill”.

How Trump reinvents the American-European alliance

Analysis by Andrea Mitchell

Has the Trump administration decided that the European allies closest to America should be treated as opponents?

Cancel the longtime aversion of President Donald Trump to NATO and the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, calling for “pathetic” Europeans in a Signal cat now infamousNow, the State Department sends diplomats to Ireland and France to reprimand their governments to have allegedly censored freedom of expression by right -wing political parties and movements.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to social networks To criticize Germany To label a “extremist” far -right opposition party. And vice-president JD Vance caused a fury to Munich Security Conference By attacking his hosts for “a European retirement from some of his most fundamental values ​​- values ​​shared with the United States of America”.

The criticism of Vance, immediately rejected by certain Republicans present, was largely canceled as an aberrant value. Now has become a policy.

An even more inflammatory declaration has just published in the State Department official substitution Expands Vance’s criticism and declares American support for emerging right -wing movements across Europe. In a separate but related declaration, Rubio Visa restrictions announced Against foreign nationals who try to censor Americans or foreign officials who demand that moderate American technological platforms of world content reaching the United States.

The leaders of the European Union, the largest commercial block in the world, are also in shock from Trump’s recent suggestion that the United States would impose a 50% price for EU exports – A proposal that he suspended After a strong market reprimand pending the conclusion of commercial negotiations in July. But with current plans for the annual NATO summit in June, European leaders are also preparing for Trump’s last salvo on their late defense commitments, associated with a potential statement that he does not support Ukraine military support for Ukraine once the current weapon pipeline is finished.

While Europe rushes to replace what it provides will be the abandonment of the United States of Ukraine, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer leads the burden of European contributions – although they cannot reproduce the American air defenses or information. And Starmer rushes to try to repair the post-Brexit violation of his country with the EU awaiting an economic deadlock on the prices with the White House. Meanwhile, the whole block turns to Beijing as an alternative trading partner.

What is not clear is how Trump administration criticisms in Europe and tariff fight, either American security or economic interests. But that only seems to be the beginning of the reimagination by the administration of an post-war alliance which has rebuilt a devastated Europe and created the largest most sustained economic boom in American history.

It’s all of the political bureau for the moment. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner.

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