In the days since the anti-ICE riots pushed President Donald Trump’s feud with Elon Musk off the front page, there have been growing signs of tension between populist and libertarian elements of the Republican Party.
The rift has largely been over the so-called one big, beautiful bill, a reconciliation legislative package that narrowly passed the House on a largely party-line vote and is now being considered by the Senate.
While much of the emphasis has been on extending the Trump tax cuts, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has increasingly focused on the reconciliation bill’s funding for the president’s immigration-enforcement priorities.
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Last week, Miller described the bill as funding the “most significant border security and deportation effort in history, including the entire wall —
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