What Trump and Musk Stand to Lose as Their Partnership Crumbles

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  you As Trump and Musk torch their partnership, we'll look at what each stands to lose.

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  Plus, GOP senators move to shore up funding for NASA programs threatened by budget cuts.

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  And we exclusively report that Iran turns to China

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  as it stocks up on materials for ballistic missiles.

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  President Trump has said he wants Vladimir Putin to help solve the Iranian nuclear crisis.

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  Yet he held a call with President Xi of China where they didn't discuss Iran.

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  It is, in fact, China that has the leverage.

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  It's Friday, June 6th.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  We begin today with more fallout from the show-stopping breakup between President Trump and the world's richest man,

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  Elon Musk.

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  That meltdown escalated quickly yesterday afternoon as Trump used an Oval Office meeting with Germany's chancellor to publicly lay out his frustrations with Musk.

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  And by the evening, the two men were trading threats,

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  with Trump toying with the idea of cutting off government contracts to Musk's companies,

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  and Musk floating the creation of a new political party,

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  suggesting Trump should be impeached and saying his tariffs would trigger a recession.

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  The extraordinary fight carries risks on both sides,

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  especially as Journal Washington coverage chief Damian Paletta said that the president lacks much room to maneuver on Capitol Hill

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  as he tries to hold together his MAGA governing coalition.

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