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But Elon Musk may be scrambling to come up with a contingency plan as his former best friend - who is the President of the United States - has threatened to deport him.
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- Daily Mail
White House blasts 'uninformed Democrats' who blamed Texas floods on Trump
The White House is on the offensive against Democrats, who have blamed the Trump administration for the shocking floods in Texas that have killed at least 80 people, including dozens of children. In the wake of the tragedy, Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other Republicans have come under fire for the lack of preparedness from the National Weather Service. The NWS has faced hundreds of job cuts since Trump took office, though it had begun re-hiring in June. White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson fired back at critics in a tweet thread on Sunday afternoon. 'I have seen many uninformed Democrats shamefully spreading Fake News about Texas, so let's get the facts straight,' she wrote. Jackson then cited several meteorologists who said protocol was followed and the NWS was both 'on the ball' and 'did their job and did it well.' The National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, which delivers forecasts for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, had extra staff on duty during the storms, Jason Runyen, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service office, said. Where the office would typically have two forecasters on duty during clear weather, they had up to five on staff. 'There were extra people in here that night, and that's typical in every weather service office — you staff up for an event and bring people in on overtime and hold people over,' Runyen said. Meanwhile, it appears local officials had no ability to warn the public themselves. Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county's top elected official, said the county considered a flood warning system along the river that would have functioned like a tornado warning siren about six or seven years ago, before he was elected, but that the idea never got off the ground because of the expense. 'We've looked into it before … The public reeled at the cost,' Kelly said. He said he didn't know what kind of safety and evacuation plans the camps may have had. 'What I do know is the flood hit the camp first, and it came in the middle of the night. I don't know where the kids were,' he said. 'I don't know what kind of alarm systems they had. That will come out in time.' Finger pointing has landed on the National Weather Service which had recently begun the process of hiring 100 new employees. However, this came months after around 600 people were fired from the agency in recent months as part of massive cuts to the federal government under Trump, according to NPR. By April, nearly half of NWS forecast offices had 20 percent vacancy rates. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was brutally grilled over the delayed warning alerts Texas residents received before the monster flash flood was about to devastate the state. Noem joined Governor Greg Abbott and other state personnel for a press conference on Saturday, where a journalist grilled the cabinet member on the delayed warning from the National Weather Service. She blamed the 'ancient system' and said the Trump Administration would look into renewing the system to better work for US citizens. 'The weather is extremely difficult to predict,' Noem said. 'But also that the National Weather Service, over the years at times, has done well and at times, we have all wanted more time and more warning and more notification.' She said the Trump administration would make it a priority to upgrade National Weather Service technology used to deliver warnings. 'We know that everyone wants more warning time, and that's why we're working to upgrade the technology that's been neglected for far too long to make sure families have as much advance notice as possible,' Noem said during a press conference with state and federal leaders. Noem did not bring up how the Trump Administration had proposed cuts for FEMA and NOAA, both of which help during natural disasters. The proposal includes cutting NOAA's weather laboratories that research severe storms, as well as, its hub for climate science coordination and research. The cuts led a Florida meteorologist to sound the alarm on what a decimated NWS would do just a month ago. Flood-ravaged parts of Texas are set to be pounded by an additional 'wall of water' officials have warned, as they announced a new wave of evacuations. Nim Kidd, Chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, advised Kerr County to brace for more of the deadly rains which have already claimed the lives of at least 80 people. 'There are unconfirmed at this point reports of additional water coming in. And as the governor mentioned, there's rain still falling on the area,' Kidd said at a press conference. 'We've got DPS aircraft that are flying up to try to find this wall of water right now, and the people in the reported areas, again, unconfirmed, that are on our communication systems.' Locals in central Texas are being urged to scramble to higher ground following further flash flood warnings as a result of further rain falling on saturated ground. Among the deceased so far are at least five young girls, aged between eight and nine, whose summer camp in Hunt, Texas was swept away by the floods in the early hours of July 4. Rescue workers said at least 11 other campers are still missing. So far 40 adults and 28 children have died in total, after the Guadalupe River rose more than 26 feet in just 45 minutes, pounding Kerr County communities with flash flooding.
Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
Las Vegas sees millionaire residents TRIPLE in just four years as they rush to capitalize on the city's perks
Millionaires have been flocking to Las Vegas at unprecedented rates and buying up lavish properties, a new study has revealed. From 2019 to 2023, the number of millionaires moving to the Sin City metropolitan area has boomed by 166 percent, according to Rent Cafe, which crunched numbers from Census Bureau data. The year before the pandemic, Las Vegas Valley had 331 millionaire households. By 2023, there were 879. 'It's no surprise to see the number of millionaire households in Las Vegas tripling since 2019. We've felt that momentum firsthand,' luxury realtor Ivan Sher told the Las Vegas Review. 'The city has transformed into a magnet for high-net-worth individuals who want more space, better quality of life, and the energy of a city that's constantly evolving.' Sin City has become somewhat of a wealthy person's safe haven thanks to Nevada 's forgiving tax policies. Nevada has no state income tax - a major perk for the rich. There are not any corporate income, franchise, inheritance or gift taxes either. The cost of living is also relatively low. Meanwhile in neighboring California, the state taxes anyone making over a million dollars 13.3 percent - likely why Sher has seen a spike in wealthy former Golden State residents coming to Vegas. Nevada has no state income tax - a major perk for the rich. There are not any corporate income, franchise, inheritance or gift taxes either. The cost of living is also relatively low. A residential area in Vegas is seen above Roughly a third of Nevada transplants have long been Californians. Nearly 39,000 Californians moved there last year, beating the previous year by roughly 2,000. Actors Mark Wahlberg and Dean Cain, as well as singer Celine Dion and boxer Floyd Mayweather, are among the celebrities who have bought homes in prestigious Vegas neighborhoods over the years. Panda Express co-founder Andrew Cherng, DCM co-founder David Chao, along with other prominent figures in the business world have also opted for Las Vegas. Some of the valley's most expensive and exclusive neighborhoods include The Ridges and MacDonald Highlands, where the median prices of sold homes are $2.3million and $2.4million respectively, according to At one point it looked like Southern Nevada would offer an even bigger draw to the area for stars with a plan to bring Hollywood Studios there. But the bill died in legislation. 'The movie studio bill not passing was a missed opportunity, but it doesn't slow us down,' Sher told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. However the real estate broker remains hopeful for the future. 'Vegas is still on the cusp of something major. From F1 to the Super Bowl, NHL, NFL, and even talks of MLB, the city's infrastructure is growing to support high-income industries. This is just the beginning,' he said. The same reason the wealthy may have their hearts set Vegas is why the City of Lost Wages has become an unsuspecting retirement location over the past few years - a cheaper cost of living. Stephen Miller, a professor of economics at the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said that phenomenon had been occurring for more than a decade. 'They retire, they sell their house, they come to Las Vegas and buy a house, maybe they downsize a but even if they don't downsize, the price is going to be lower,' he told Daily Mail in 2023.
The Guardian
26 minutes ago
- The Guardian
Trump news at a glance: markets react with confusion as Trump appears to move goal posts on tariffs again
Stock markets slipped amid confusion as to when – and at what level – new US tariffs would be applied, as Donald Trump's self-imposed 9 July deadline edged closer. The US is close to finalising several trade agreements in the coming days and will notify other countries of higher tariff rates by Thursday, the president said on Sunday, with the higher rates to take effect on 1 August. 'President Trump's going to be sending letters to some of our trading partners saying that if you don't move things along, then on August 1 you will boomerang back to your April 2 tariff level,' treasury secretary Scott Bessent told CNN. Trump in April announced a 10% base tariff rate on most countries and higher 'reciprocal' rates ranging up to 50%. However, Trump also said levies could range in value from 'maybe 60% or 70% tariffs to 10% and 20%', further clouding the picture. With very few actual trade deals done, analysts had suspected the date would be pushed out, though it was still not clear if the new deadline applied to all trading partners or just some. Trump said on Sunday that his administration plans to start sending letters on Monday to US trade partners, dictating new tariff rates to be imposed on goods they sell to Americans. 'It could be 12, maybe 15,' the president told reporters, 'and we've made deals also, so we're going to have a combination of letters and some deals have been made.' Kevin Hassett, who heads the White House National Economic Council, told CBS that there might be wriggle room for countries engaged in earnest negotiations. 'There are deadlines, and there are things that are close, and so maybe things will push back past the deadline,' Hassett said, adding that Trump would decide if that could happen. Read the full story Donald Trump called Elon Musk's decision to start and bankroll a new US political party 'ridiculous' on Sunday. 'Third parties have never worked, so he can have fun with it but I think it's ridiculous,' the president told reporters traveling with him back to the White House from his New Jersey golf club. He then elaborated, at great length, in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social. 'I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely 'off the rails,' essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,' the president wrote. Read the full story Trump said he believed a hostage release and ceasefire deal could be reached this week, which could lead to the release of 'quite a few hostages.' He was speaking after Benjamin Netanyahu left Israel for talks in Washington, praising Trump's return to the presidency. 'We have never had such a friend in the White House … We have already changed the face of the Middle East beyond recognition, and we have an opportunity and the ability to change it further and to enable a great future for the state of Israel, the people of Israel and the entire Middle East,' Israel's prime minister told reporters. Read the full story Laura Loomer has emerged as the most prominent Maga America First influencer in the early days of Trump's second term. In early April, Loomer, a 32-year-old pro-Trump online influencer widely seen as a rightwing conspiracy theorist, met with Trump and gave him a list of names of people on the staff of the national security council that she believed were not loyal enough to Trump or at least had professional backgrounds that she considered suspect. Trump fired six staffers. Later, national security adviser Mike Waltz, whom Loomer had criticized for his role in the Signalgate chat leak scandal, was ousted as well. Read the full story Donald Trump announced on social media that he had signed a federal emergency declaration that would free additional resources to support local efforts in search and rescue operations in Texas after deadly flooding. Trump also posted a letter saying federal efforts would be coordinated by Benjamin Abbott of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema). In May, that agency's acting administrator was fired after he told Congress he did not believe it was 'in the best interest of the American people to eliminate' Fema, which Trump has said he plans to do. Asked on Sunday if he is still planning to phase out Fema, Trump told a reporter: 'Well, Fema is something we can talk about later, but right now they're busy working.' Read the full story David Smith asks if Trump's expansion of presidential powers is setting the stage for future Oval Office holders? Adam Gabbatt writes that although Trump's mega-bill has been widely criticized in the press, Fox News sees it differently. Catching up? Here's what happened 5 July.
