No charges for woman dragged from Idaho town hall
No charges will be filed against a woman dragged from an Idaho Republican town hall by security guards. The security firm's license has also been revoked. KHQ's John Webb reports.
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Elon Musk torches Donald Trump's signature plan as 'a disgusting abomination'
Just days after Donald Trump held an event to bid him a rosy farewell from the White House, Elon Musk has gone nuclear on the president's 'big beautiful bill'. Musk blasted Trump's signature budget bill on his X (formerly Twitter) platform on Tuesday afternoon, four days after Trump praised him in an Oval Office press conference. 'I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore,' wrote Musk. 'This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. 'Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.' In another post, Trump's former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wrote that the bill 'will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt'. Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act extends tax cuts he brought in 2017 during his first term, and allocates more funding for border security and the military. Those come at the expense of assistance programs like Medicaid and the food-purchasing help program SNAP. The bill will add roughly $3.8trillion to the federal government's $36.2trillion debt over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Musk replied to an X post stating that he was right, by writing, 'Simple math.' Trump did not immediately respond to Musk's X post, but on Tuesday morning ripped Republican Senator Rand Paul for opposing the bill. 'Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming,' wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform. In a subsequent post, Trump wrote that 'Rand votes NO on everything' and that 'his ideas are actually crazy (losers!).' And on Monday evening, Trump wrote that there are 'so many false statements' about the bill and claimed that 'there will be NO CUTS to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid'. In reality, the bill proposes cutting federal spending on Medicaid by at least $600billion over a decade and decreasing enrollment by about 10.3million Americans, according to a preliminary estimate from the CBO. It is not the first time that Musk, who has returned his focus to running his businesses including SpaceX and Tesla, has criticised Trump's bill. The tech billionaire took a swipe at the domestic policy bill just before his farewell presser. 'I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,' Musk told CBS News' Sunday Morning. Trump at the time avoided criticising Musk and instead said that tough politics in the House, which has passed it, resulted in a higher price tag for the bill than he would like. 'I'm not happy about certain aspects of it, but I'm thrilled by other aspects of it,' the president said, adding that his administration will be negotiating it. More Trending Trump at the event on Friday said, 'Today it's about a man named Elon and he's one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced.' He added that Musk 'has worked tirelessly' leading DOGE, which calculated more than $160billion in savings for fiscal year 2025 to 2026. Both the president and Musk himself said that he was not leaving the White House entirely despite his time as a 'special government employee' coming to an end. But it remains to be seen if Trump, who reportedly had recent disagreements with Musk, will welcome him with the same warmth moving forward. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Haunted doll's handler says it's not responsible for local disasters as it tours country MORE: FDA tomato recall elevated to highest level due to salmonella risk MORE: Toddler found riding baggage conveyor belt after vanishing from parents at Newark Airport
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The key dynamics shaping a busy month of primaries: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. We may be entering the summer of an off-year, but June is still shaping up to be a big election month. Steve Kornacki breaks down what to watch in the New Jersey, Virginia and New York City primaries in the coming weeks. Plus, Scott Wong talks to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries about his 'more is more' strategy for taking on President Donald Trump — and whether Democrats' message is breaking through. — Adam Wollner 🗣️ We want to hear from you! Have a question for the NBC News Politics Desk about Trump's 'big, beautiful bill,' this month's elections or anything else happening on the world of politics? Send your questions to politicsnewsletter@ and we may answer them in a future edition of the newsletter. The key dynamics shaping a busy month of primaries By Steve Kornacki The next three weeks will bring primaries in the three most closely watched races of 2025. Here are the key dynamics to watch: New Jersey: Both parties will nominate gubernatorial candidates in the Garden State on June 10. Barring a complete shock, this will serve as a coronation for Republican Jack Ciattarelli, who was already leading by wide margins in the polls when President Donald Trump endorsed him several weeks ago. The Democratic contest isn't as clear-cut, but there is a favorite: Rep. Mikie Sherrill has separated herself from the six-candidate field in the most recent polling and enjoys strong backing from the state's still-powerful (though probably not as much as before) county political machines. The combination of Trump's surprising strength in New Jersey last year and Gov. Phil Murphy's unexpectedly close re-election in 2021 has Democratic leaders apprehensive about their November prospects. Many concluded that Sherrill, a Navy veteran who flipped a GOP-held district to win her House seat in 2018, would be their most electable option. Worth keeping an eye on, though, is a pair of mayors. Jersey City's Steve Fulop is portraying his candidacy as a war against political bossism and has aligned with local anti-establishment candidates. And Newark's Ras Baraka will try to couple support from Black voters (over 20% of the primary electorate) with appeal to the party's broader progressive base, especially after his high-profile arrest at an ICE detention facility. But both have lagged in polling and their overlapping appeal to progressives only complicates each other's path. Once the matchup is set, the general election will feature a clash of two long-term trends. On the one hand, New Jersey has only elected a governor from the party that controls the White House once in the last nine races — an ominous harbinger for the GOP. But it also hasn't handed the same party power in Trenton for three straight elections since 1961 — a feat Democrats are trying to pull off this year. Something will have to give. Virginia: On June 17, Virginia Democrats and Republicans will officially set their slates for the fall. Both gubernatorial nominations are already settled: Lt. Gov. Winsome Earl-Sears for the Republicans and Rep. Abigail Spanberger for the Democrats. And the general election picture already looks clearer in Virginia than in New Jersey. Polling has consistently shown Spanberger — who, like Sherrill, flipped a Republican seat en route to Congress in 2018 — ahead of Earl-Sears. And in 11 of the last 12 gubernatorial races, Virginians have sided against whichever party controlled the White House at the time. New York City: And then there's the mayoral primary in the Big Apple on June 24, the city's first with a ranked-choice voting system. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the front-runner on the Democratic side, but the two most recent polls show Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani emerging from the crowded field as his main competition. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has tapped into support from voters who tend to be younger, college-educated and progressive. He also runs significantly better with white voters than nonwhite voters. While certainly large, Mamdani's coalition is not broad enough demographically to win the primary — at least not yet. But his rapid rise presents some interesting potential scenarios. If Mamdani ends up toppling Cuomo, the former governor could still run in the general election anyway, on the ballot line of a party he just created. It's a move that his father, Mario Cuomo, tried back in 1977, after he fell short in the Democratic mayoral primary. There's also the leftist Working Families Party, which also has its own general election ballot line. Its leaders have indicated they have no plans to let Cuomo have that line even if he wins the Democratic primary. More recently, the party formally recommended that voters rank Mamdani as their top choice in the Democratic primary. If Mamdani misses narrowly in the Democratic primary, could he still run this fall as the WFP's candidate? Would someone else? On top of all of this, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is still officially running. He's bypassing the Democratic primary but has ballot lines of his own for the general election. Few think Adams can actually win in November, but his potential to grab a sizable chunk of votes could make a third-party bid more enticing for another candidate. By Scott Wong In the chaotic opening weeks of President Donald Trump's second administration, Democrats debated whether to push back on every norm-shattering executive action, or pick and choose their spots and hope Trump would prove to be his own worst enemy. That debate has been settled, with Democrats aggressively taking on Trump in the courts, in the streets and on social media. At the center of that messaging strategy is House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who privately has been urging his members to be more visible in their districts and on digital media, and has stepped up his own activity in recent weeks. Rather than his regular, once-a-week news conference in the Capitol, Jeffries now holds as many as three press briefings with reporters each week in Washington. He is also making weekly appearances on popular podcasts outside the traditional political media circuit, including those hosted by Stephen A. Smith, Tony Kornheiser, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric and Scott Galloway. 'We are in a 'more is more' environment. These aren't ordinary times, and they require an extraordinary response,' Jeffries said in a phone interview with NBC News on Tuesday, one of roughly two dozen digital media interviews he has participated in since February. After suffering a bruising defeat in the last presidential election and still years out from the next one, Democrats are without a clear national leader. And the party's base has displayed a hunger for a new and younger generation of voices to take charge. That has opened the door for Jeffries, 54, to assume an even bigger role in the party, even as he is still coming into national prominence and — less than three years removed from succeeding Nancy Pelosi as House Democrats' leader — not yet a household name. The flood-the-zone strategy is a marked change for a politician with a reputation for being cautious and calculated. But if that game plan pays off and Democrats manage to win control of the House in next year's midterm elections, Jeffries would be the favorite to become speaker — and the party's most powerful member in Washington. 'He's meeting the moment,' Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., an influential progressive in the party, told NBC News in an interview. 'And that's why I say he's, right now, the leader of the Democratic Party.'
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Elon Musk's criticism could ‘influence' Senate Republicans on Trump agenda bill
Elon Musk criticizes the Republican spending bill that would advance President Trump's agenda. NBC News White House Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard and NBC News Senior National Political Reporter Sahil Kapur discuss the responses from the White House and Republican congressional 3, 2025
