Weekend Report: What's happening?

More fallout from the Musk-Trump implosion. Abrego-Garcia back in the U.S. as White House caves. Dems brand the "We're All Going to Die" Act.

The explosive collision of Donald Trump and Elon Musk made for high drama, and lots of media attention. What is getting less focus is how much both men need one another, and how much of a crisis this is for MAGA and the White House, where JD Vance has remained quiet under making a mild criticism this morning. That silence may be a sign that Trump hopes Vance will maintain a White House link to Musk—or. more ominously, is a sign that Vance, a Musk favorite, could part of a future tech-bro eventual takeover of the government.

The Trump administration is the most cruel and callous we’ve seen, but they also cave in they they get cornered. Remember: TACO, “Trump Always Chickens Out.” Bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador—late on a Friday, as the Trump-Musk fight dominated headlines—showed they are worried about their actions. Bringing new trumped-up charges against the man is an attempt to give them cover, and these charges had nothing to do with the reason he was deported.

Democrats are seizing on Senator Joni Ernst’s major gift to them when she said, “We’re all going to die,” in response to a town hall attendee’s expressing concern that cutting Medicaid would cause people to die. Bizarrely, rather than apologize, she has doubled down in a sarcastic video that only gave Democrats a second gift, and now the embattled big, bad bill is branded the “We’re All Going to Die” Act.