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Live updates: Elon Musk criticizes Republican tax cuts and spending bill
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 3, 2025
President Donald Trump gives tech billionaire Elon Musk a
gold-colored key for his work establishing the “Department
of Government Efficiency,” which sought to layoff federal
workers and close government agencies to achieve cost savings.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who just left the Trump administration as an adviser involved in the Department of Government Efficiency, blasted the tax cuts and spending plans backed by the president that passed the House.
“This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk posted Tuesday on X. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
Other news we’re following:
- Trump wants ‘big, beautiful’ bill signed by July 4: The president is pushing the slow-rolling Senate to get the bill cleared, sent back to the House for approval and to his desk in just over a month. GOP Senate leader John Thune has a narrow majority to get the bill passed.
- Federal prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates, judge rules: Hundreds of transgender inmates held by the federal Bureau of Prisons must continue to receive hormone therapy and social accommodations, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. A January executive order signed by Trump led to a disruption in medical treatment.
- Administration revokes hospital guidelines on emergency abortions: Back in 2022, the Biden administration issued guidance that hospitals should provide emergency abortions when they are necessary to stabilize a medical condition. The guidance was revoked Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with the agency.
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Hegseth orders the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk scrubbed from Navy ship
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a ship dubbed for a killed gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War.
U.S. officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler and that a new name is expected this month. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
The change was laid out in an internal memo that officials said defended the action as a move to align with Trump and Hegseth’s objectives to “re-establish the warrior culture.”
It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge all diversity, equity and inclusion references and comes during Pride Month.
Musk: ‘Fire all politicians who betrayed the American people’
Musk is keeping up the pressure on Republicans just hours after he blasted Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill as an “abomination.”
“In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people,” the billionaire and Trump adviser wrote on the social platform X.
The message is likely to be seen as a threat to back challengers to Republicans who back the budget bill.
His post quoted a conservative influencer who criticized Republicans for federal spending, among other complaints.
Musk has previously pledged to support primary challengers to Republicans who don’t support Trump’s agenda. His break from Trump over the spending bill sets up a test of his own influence on the GOP.
Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions
The guidance was issued was by the Biden administration in 2022 on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upended national abortion rights.
The direction was an effort to preserve abortion access for extreme cases in which women are experiencing medical emergencies and need an abortion to prevent serious complications, including organ loss or severe hemorrhaging.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Tuesday that it is rescinding the guidance but will continue to enforce the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, “including for identified emergency medical conditions that place the health of a pregnant woman or her unborn child in serious jeopardy.”
That law requires emergency rooms that receive Medicare dollars to provide an exam and stabilizing treatment for all patients. Nearly all emergency rooms in the U.S. rely on Medicare funds.
An Associated Press inquiry last year found that, even with that guidance, dozens of pregnant women were being turned away from emergency rooms, including some who needed emergency abortions.
▶ Read more on the agency’s decision.
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