Good morning, Wake Up Right fam! There appears to be a split in MAGA-world. Yesterday, Elon Musk called Trump’s 'Big, Beautiful Bill’ a “disgusting abomination.” 😮 

We break down the beef in today’s newsletter. After you’ve read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts in the poll below.

• 📈 S&P 500 stocks had best May since 1990

• 🚔️ Assaults on NYPD are up 63% since 2019

• 🗓️ The Battle of Midway began on this day in 1942

• 🧠 50% of young lib women have a mental health condition

^{Sources: Yahoo Finance, NY Post, History, Pew}

Here we go again: Chinese caught smuggling bioweapons into the U.S.

Two Chinese nationals are facing federal charges for allegedly smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen into the U.S., the FBI announced yesterday.

The details: The suspects, Yunqing Jian (33) and Zunyong Liu (34), were caught smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a crop-destroying fungus used in agroterrorism, through Detroit Metro Airport.

More about Fusarium graminearum: The dangerous pathogen causes a disease in wheat, barley, maize, and rice. If ingested, it can lead to liver damage and reproductive issues in humans and livestock.

The charges: Jian and Liu are charged with conspiracy, visa fraud, false statements, and smuggling hazardous material.

Links to the CCP: According to a post on X from FBI Director Kash Patel, Jian has expressed loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and received funding from the Chinese government to study this dangerous pathogen. Liu works at a Chinese university where he also studies the fungus.

Big picture: In recent years, the CCP has taken steps to infiltrate and potentially compromise U.S. infrastructure, including exploiting vulnerabilities in power grid components such as solar inverters and conducting cyberattacks on essential services like water treatment facilities and pipelines.

The last word goes to Kash Patel, who said: “This case is a sobering reminder that the CCP is working around the clock… [to put] American lives and our economy at serious risk.”

[Source: The Post Millennial, The National Pulse]

Big, beautiful billionaire beef

Elon Musk took a very public shot at President Donald Trump’s signature “big, beautiful” tax-and-spending bill yesterday, leaving folks on both sides of the aisle with permanent 😮 emoji face. And many are wondering: Was he motivated by principle or profit?

The details: Just days after his tenure as a special government employee ended, Musk lashed out at the bill on X, writing:

• “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. 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.”

Big, beautiful refresher: The bill codifies many of Trump’s campaign policies: extending his 2017 tax cuts, eliminating taxes on tips and overtime, offering a $4,000 tax credit for Social Security, boosting border security and defense spending, and raising the debt ceiling.

• The downside: The Congressional Budget Office says it would increase the annual deficit by at least $600 billion in fiscal year 2026.

Principled argument: Musk has framed his opposition in principle, arguing that the bill would "increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt” — aligning himself with fiscal conservatives like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie who vehemently oppose the bill and have drawn Trump’s ire for it.

• The White House rebuffs this argument. Stephen Miller explained to Musk that the significant cuts cannot be made to spending through this bill because it's a reconciliation bill — which can only impact discretionary spending. And most of the potential cuts identified by DOGE were to nondiscretionary spending.

…or Profit? A blockbuster report from Axios [no friend of Trump] lays out how Musk was simply “butthurt” by four specific perceived slights he had received from the Trump administration in recent weeks:

1. The bill eliminates electric vehicle (EV) tax credits — something Musk lobbied to preserve and a direct benefit to Tesla.

2. Musk lobbied for the FAA to use Starlink for air traffic control, but was rejected over appearances of a conflict of interest and the risk of reliance on satellite over fiber-optics.

3. Musk wanted to stay as an unpaid special government employee, but the White House said the law did not allow him beyond the 130-day limit.

4. Trump withdrew the nomination of Musk ally Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator on Sunday.

Zoom out: Despite the vocal opposition to the bill, Musk has not directed any attacks against Trump specifically, instead calling out Congress. Likewise, Trump has not attacked Musk. The Axios report says, “Musk and Trump remain friends and allies.”

Remember to go back to the top of today’s e-mail and let me know what you think about this rift.

[Source: The National Pulse, Axios]

✅ A San Francisco-based federal judge dismissed California's lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's tariffs. Read more.

👩‍⚖️ President Trump is privately frustrated with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whom he now considers “weak” and out of step with the judicial philosophy she conveyed when they met in 2020. Read more.

🏳️‍🌈 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the oiler ship that was named after gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Read more. He was a pedo.

🤖 Meta plans to use AI to fully automate ad creation on its social media platforms by 2026. Read more.

👏 The wife and all five children of illegal alien terrorist Mohamed Soliman have been arrested by federal immigration agents and will be swiftly deported. Read more.

⌛️ Today is the deadline set by the Trump administration for countries to submit their best trade deal proposals to avoid reciprocal tariffs, which go into place on July 8. Read more.

🩸 Japan began clinical trials to test the use of artificial blood that works for all blood types. Read more.

⚧️ A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue providing transgender procedures to inmates in federal prisons. Read more.

💰️ The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is preparing to award Black residents a $105 million reparations package to address the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Read more.

🎥 Axios reporter tells Steve Bannon the real reasons Elon Musk split with Trump. Watch.

🎥 Comedian Tim Dillon ridicules Chris Cuomo to his face for defending Hunter Biden. Watch.

🎥 Rep. Eric Swalwell films himself grossly eating a taco. Watch.

🎥 The White House is not celebrating Pride Month. Watch.

🎥 Bryson DeChambeau turns the White House lawn into a golf course. Watch.

🎥 CBS hack is BIG MAD that the Trump admin won't sanction Covid boosters for kids. Watch.

🎥 Sen. Kennedy verbally SPANKS liberal law professor. Watch.

🎥 Piers Morgan tells trans athlete she is a 'CHEAT.' Watch.

🎥 JD Vance: Under Biden we were “governed by complete morons.” Watch.

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