The Big Beautiful Bill is bad enough. But the trillions in U.S. debt are terrifying.

Kate Andrews is the Spectator magazine’s U.S. deputy editor.

It was a short, passionate bromance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Now, it’s all-out war. “He just went CRAZY!” the president exclaimed Thursday on Truth Social. Musk shot back, accusing Trump of being “in the Epstein files,” before predicting a recession by the end of the year.

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