Trump and Musk Break Up, Tariffs Raise $70 billion, ICE Detention Conditions
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What happens when Trump and Musk break up?
What happens when you have a friend and then you break up?
I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot.
Elon Musk said the president's budget plan borrowed too much. President Trump talked of cutting Musk's contracts. Musk said, OK, I'm Steve Inskeep, and this is Up First from NPR News. The Treasury Department estimates President Trump's tariffs brought in $70 billion for the government, which may be good, but who paid?
That revenue comes from somewhere. It's a tax on the backs of the people that are importing.
Also, migrants at a detention facility lined up in a courtyard so that they spelled S-O-S. I've heard people use the word starving. What's known about their condition? Stay with us. We've got the news you need to start your day.
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This is the moment in the relationship where you go back through the old pictures and cry, or maybe edit the other person out. Elon Musk and President Trump had seemed inseparable for months. Musk brought one of his many children, X, to the White House. He turned up casually dressed at cabinet meetings.
How much money have Trump's tariffs raised?
Obviously, that can only be done with the support of everyone in this room. And I'd like to thank everyone for your support.
He stood up the Department of Government Efficiency, one of the world's richest men joyously firing people while waving around a chainsaw.
This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
Chainsaw! And President Trump was all in favor as recently as last week when Musk left government service.
And he's one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced. He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation, and we appreciate it.
This is all history. Maybe because they broke up yesterday. NPR White House correspondent Danielle Kurtz-Laban was watching. Hi there, Danielle.
Hey, good morning.
I guess we should note this very personal seeming dispute began with an actual policy disagreement. What is it?
Ostensibly, yeah. I mean, the big, beautiful bill was at the start of all of this. That bill is the massive policy package Republicans are trying to pass right now. Musk had loudly criticized that bill for days because of the cost of the bill. At one point, Musk called the bill a disgusting abomination. And look, the bill is expensive. The nonpartisan CBO has reported it would add $2.4 trillion to future deficits. But then all of that brings us to yesterday when Trump was asked about Musk's criticism of that bill. And Trump said that he thinks Musk, as CEO of Tesla, well, he's just angry that the bill would cut tax incentives for people buying electric cars.
All of a sudden he had a problem. And he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate because that's billions and billions of dollars.
And then Trump went further. He also said Musk just misses the power and attention that he had when he was in government.
OK, so this escalated in real time. Musk got onto X and he said EV credits aren't the issue for me. And then what?
You're right, it escalated. Well, Trump then threatened to end the government contracts that Musk's companies have. Musk, in turn, threatened to decommission a spacecraft that NASA uses. And then Musk got really aggressive. He posted that Trump hadn't released all the records around sex offender Jeffrey Epstein because, according to Musk, those files implicate Trump.
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