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Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington, as he heads to Pittsburgh for a rally. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland leaves federal appeals court in New York on March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

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Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Colmon Elridge addresses a "Rural Listening Tour" gathering in Paintsville, Ky., Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)

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Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in front of the West Wing of the White House, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman prior to addressing the 51st Delta Sigma Theta National Convention in Washington, July 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, file)

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Police guard as ambulances carry bodies of tourists, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Reflection and remembrance at Oklahoma City memorial 30 years after the bombing

Aren Almon greets President Bill Clinton after a prayer service for the victims of the deadly truck bomb attack in Oklahoma City on April 23, 1995. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

Former President Clinton returns to Oklahoma City 30 years after bombing of federal building

Family members wait for word about their missing relatives on April 19, 1995 at the First Christian Church in Oklahoma City, after a truck bomb exploded in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter, File)

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United States UN Ambassador Dorothy Shea addresses the United Nations Security Council, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Students, faculty and members of the Harvard University community rally, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo)

University protests blast Trump’s attacks on funding, speech and international students

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Picture of Trump after the assassination attempt displaces Obama portrait at the White House

President Donald Trump signs an executive order during an event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of mistakenly deported man

This image provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows Philip Hegseth at DHS headquarters in Washington, Feb. 24, 2025. (Mikaela McGee/Department of Homeland Security via AP)

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Demonstrators rally in support of federal workers outside of the Department of Health and Human Services, Feb. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Two judges in mass firings cases order Trump administration to rehire probationary workers for now

Trump closes his joint address declaring ‘the golden age of America has only just begun’

President Donald Trump gestures towards Democrats while addressing a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, as Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., listen. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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New Yorkers on Trump designating English as the official language of the US

President Donald Trump stands before British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs order designating English as the official language of the US

President Bill Clinton laughs as he tightly draws his arms to his sides when U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich asks the members of the audience to raise their hands if they felt they had job security, during a meeting at the Sunnyvale Community Center, Sept. 10, 1993, in Sunnyvale, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump and Musk aren’t the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions

A demonstrator holds a poster displaying a prohibited traffic sign reading "Musk DOGE" during a rally to protest President Trump's policies on Presidents Day Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

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Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker attends Political Animals Club meeting in Little Rock, Ark., March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who stepped down in the wake of Whitewater, dies at 81

Carrie Muniak joins a rally in front of the Office of Personnel Management, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government. The Office of Personnel Management was created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and is the equivalent of the government's human resources department. It helps manage the civil service, including pay schedules, health insurance and pension programs. The agency has offered millions of federal workers eight months of salary if they voluntarily choose to leave their jobs by Feb. 6. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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North Carolina Democratic activist and onetime US Ambassador Jeanette Hyde has died at age 86

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the White House on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Kabir Sehgal, left, and Jason Carter accepts the award for best audiobook, narration, and storytelling recording for "Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration" during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Jimmy Carter wins posthumous Grammy for narrating an audiobook of his Sunday school lessons

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the 2025 House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Fla., Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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