Hansi Lewong
speaker
1,358 appearances
173 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3d ago
Hansi Lewong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 138 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 52.
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Anzi Lewong, NPR News.
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On his social media platform Truth Social, President Trump provided no details about how or why he now wants to support Afghan interpreters and other allies to the U.S.
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who've been stuck in the United Arab Emirates for years, but said, quote, I will try to save them starting right now.
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Six months ago, on the first day of his second term, Trump suspended the refugee resettlement program that many Afghan allies were relying on to flee their now Taliban controlled home country.
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Last week, the Trump administration ended temporarily
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In a statement, Secretary of Homeland Security Christian Ohm said the program was terminated because of Afghanistan's quote.
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Improved security situation and quote stabilizing economy.
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Spokespeople for the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and the White House did not immediately respond to questions about whether those programs will be restored.
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There's a key set of census numbers that are used to determine how many US House seats and electoral college votes each state gets for a decade.
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The fourteenth Amendment says those apportionment counts must include the quote whole number of persons in each state.
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But Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee have released a funding bill that would ban the Census Bureau from including the millions of people living in the states without legal status.
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Other GOP lawmakers have introduced similar bills that would exclude a broader group, all people living in the states without U.S.
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citizenship, including green card holders.
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President Trump recently said he would support such a proposal.
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He tried and failed to carry out a version of it for the 2020 census.
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If any of the current bills in Congress passed, they would likely be challenged in court.
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Hansie Lewang in PR News, Washington.
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There's less than five years left until the 2030 census, which will be used to redistribute political representation and federal funding.
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But the Census Bureau is planning to knock on doors as soon as next year to try out ways of getting a more accurate tally with what's called the 2026 Census Test.
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It's set to take place in six areas in the South and West, and the experiments' results are supposed to help the Bureau tackle long-standing undercounts of populations such as children under the age of five, people of color, and renters.
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