The Daily Beast
Steve Bannon, the right-wing populist and onetime adviser to President Donald Trump, urged the White House to hasten the federal spending cuts being presided over by Elon Musk. The heated exchange was revealed in the Wall Street Journal’s profile of Bannon’s unscripted streaming show, TV broadcast and podcast “War Room.” The newspaper reported that, prior to a recent livestream, Bannon phoned up Trump’s White House budget chief Russ Vought and bluntly told him to get Musk, whose DOGE task force