The fate of Donald Trump ’s megabill in the Senate was already uncertain. Then came the spectacular dissolution of his alliance with Elon Musk , who began the week railing against the legislation and ended it with a battery of attacks—including alleging that the president has ties to Jeffrey Epstein and suggesting that he should be impeached and replaced by Vice President JD Vance . Suddenly, Republicans—who’d spent months watching with delight as the two took flamethrowers to the nation’s democratic institutions—found themselves caught in the crossfire as the former allies took aim at one another .

Most, to this point, have aligned themselves with their official boss: “President Trump has done more than any person in my lifetime to earn the trust of the movement he leads,” Vance

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