Brian Mann
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Am I a propagandist? A truth teller? An influencer? There's probably no more contested profession in the world today than mine, journalism. I'm Brian Reed, and on my show, Question Everything, we dive headfirst into the conflicts we're all facing over truth and who gets to tell it. Listen now to Question Everything, part of the NPR Podcast Network.
Am I a propagandist? A truth teller? An influencer? There's probably no more contested profession in the world today than mine, journalism. I'm Brian Reed, and on my show, Question Everything, we dive headfirst into the conflicts we're all facing over truth and who gets to tell it. Listen now to Question Everything, part of the NPR Podcast Network.
This is the most excited I've been about a movie in a very long time.
Am I a propagandist? A truth teller? An influencer? There's probably no more contested profession in the world today than mine, journalism. I'm Brian Reed, and on my show, Question Everything, we dive headfirst into the conflicts we're all facing over truth and who gets to tell it. Listen now to Question Everything, part of the NPR Podcast Network.
Am I a propagandist? A truth teller? An influencer? There's probably no more contested profession in the world today than mine, journalism. I'm Brian Reed, and on my show, Question Everything, we dive headfirst into the conflicts we're all facing over truth and who gets to tell it. Listen now to Question Everything, part of the NPR Podcast Network.
Yeah, the White House says this is something President Trump keeps bringing up in public and in private meetings. As far back as February, Trump said he would do it in a heartbeat. That's a quote, if a legal way can be found. And then appearing on Monday with El Salvador's leader, the president could be heard on tape predicting this will happen. Homegrowns are next.
Homegrowns are next. Trump says they're referring to U.S. citizens. He then suggests El Salvador needs to build more prisons to house Americans. Later in that press conference, the president said he had ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to search for a legal pathway to deport Americans in this fashion.
And also he suggested he's negotiating with other countries, which he didn't name, that might also be willing to imprison Americans overseas. And you've been speaking with legal and constitutional experts. I mean, do they think this is something the U.S.
You know, the Trump administration keeps pushing boundaries. El Salvador is already holding hundreds of people in a maximum security prison, as we've been hearing. They were detained in the U.S. for allegedly lacking legal status or having gang affiliations. But there are big legal questions about that, including yesterday's contempt finding.
All the experts I spoke to say taking this next step, deporting American citizens, would cross another line. Lauren Brooke Eisen is with the Brennan Center's Justice Program. That's a progressive think tank at New York University. She said this policy would be illegal and morally wrong.
Now, NPR reached out to three prominent conservative legal scholars and also contacted three leading conservative legal think tanks. All declined to comment on this policy idea or they didn't respond. And we could also find no instances of GOP leaders in the House or Senate commenting publicly on this proposal to deport Americans. We reached out to them for comment and got no response.
We don't. President Trump and Attorney General Bondi have said this would only include violent criminals, but we don't have details. One concern raised by David Beer, he's at the Libertarian Cato Institute, is that Trump could move forward with this without offering a lot of clarity, even if courts and judges object.
One more thing. A Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor published an opinion last week saying recent legal arguments made by the Trump administration suggest the federal government already believes it can, and I'm quoting the justice here, deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens. So we'll be watching this to see where it goes. All right. That's NPR's Brian Mann. Brian, thanks.
Republicans are pushing for deep budget cuts that many experts say will shrink Medicaid, the biggest source of insurance coverage in the U.S., for people seeking treatment for fentanyl and other forms of addiction. A report issued by Democrats serving on Congress' Joint Economic Committee found hundreds of thousands of people now receiving drug treatment through Medicaid
won't qualify for other forms of coverage. A separate study by the Brookings Institution found the loss of Medicaid funding could also hit many hospitals and clinics, especially in low-income rural and urban areas. This comes at a time when drug overdose deaths have been dropping, experts say in part because of access to affordable treatment. Brian Mann, NPR News, New York.
Consider This from NPR · Reporting on how America reduced the number of opioid deaths · 30 Mar 2025
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But then, toward the end of 2023... Suddenly, the data coming out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed this drop.
One month, two months in a row it dropped. Three months.
What I was hearing from people using drugs on the street, talking to frontline harm reduction people, listening to people in Washington looking at this, they were saying this feels different. The carnage feels like it's easing. Suddenly, there was a shift.
This is a science fiction level event, like never before. in the history of America's drug crisis, and this goes even back before the pain pill crisis of the 90s, go back to heroin, go back to crack cocaine, we've never solved a drug epidemic in the way that these numbers suggest.
The best interventions with everybody throwing everything at the problem sometimes can ease the problem by eight, nine percent. We're now seeing states where drug deaths are dropping 50 percent in a single year, 30 percent, 40 percent is now common. That level of decline, so many lives being saved.
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