{"id":67462,"date":"2025-06-06T14:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67462"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:01:04","slug":"trump-and-musk-clash-over-contracts-and-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/06\/trump-and-musk-clash-over-contracts-and-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Musk Clash Over Contracts and Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cross Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel government contracts with Elon Musk\u2019s companies, prompting the billionaire to back calls for Trump\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that cutting subsidies to Musk\u2019s firms would save billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Following the post, Tesla stock dropped by 14.3 percent, wiping out nearly $150 billion in market value.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded on X, accusing Trump of ingratitude despite his past support and donations.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticized Trump\u2019s economic policies and warned of a potential recession.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute extended to space affairs as Musk briefly threatened to retire the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, though he reversed the decision just hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cross Stone U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel government contracts with Elon Musk\u2019s companies, prompting the billionaire to back calls for Trump\u2019s impeachment. In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that cutting subsidies to Musk\u2019s firms would save billions of dollars. Following the post, Tesla stock dropped by 14.3 percent, wiping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67464,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67462\/revisions\/67464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}