Kilmar Abrego García was returned to U.S. custody. The Trump administration found it fired too many federal workers. Overpromised: Former DOGE head Elon Musk claimed his group would deliver $2 trillion worth of cuts, then dropped that estimate to $1 trillion, then $150 billion.

As tensions escalated between Trump and Musk, Russian official Dmitry Medvedev jokingly offered to mediate peace in exchange for Starlink shares, while another suggested asylum for the Tesla CEO.

Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters. The origin of the dispute is the impact Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill has on U.S. public debt.