Natalie Kitroeff

Where does that conversation stand now?

Well, Ernesto, thanks so much.

We'll be right back.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced a plan to weaken fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new cars and light trucks, calling them a scam.

It was his latest move to gut fuel restrictions put in place by the Biden administration to help address climate change.

Trump said the efficiency requirements made cars too costly for automakers to build and too expensive for Americans to buy.

The administration claimed the new rules would shave $1,000 off the cost of a new car.

And in a report that's scheduled to be released on Thursday, the Pentagon's acting inspector general said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brist endangering American troops earlier this year when he used a private messaging app to discuss military plans.

The Pentagon's internal inquiry centered on Hegseth's role in a group chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, where he discussed imminent strikes in Yemen with other senior Trump officials.

The chat became public because a journalist was added to the group by mistake.

Today's episode was produced by Diana Nguyen, Nina Feldman, and Stella Tan.

It was edited by M.J.

Davis-Lynn and Michael Benoit, contains music by Alisha E. Toop and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Natalie Kitchoeth.

See you tomorrow.

I've got four kids, and my wife and I decided a few months ago that we needed to pack up and move.

We actually feel like asylum seekers in our own country.

Our hope is that in Connecticut, the powers that be will be able to protect us.

I don't know, the whole thing is heartbreaking.