Taylor Wilson
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The Excerpt · Judge demands daily updates on return plan for man wrongly deported · 12 Apr 2025
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Joey Garrison covers the White House for USA Today. Great insight as always, Joey. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me on. The Trump administration is considering a budget proposal that would cut funding for Head Start, a program created during Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty that offers childcare and preschool education to low-income families.
That's according to an official familiar with the plan, an exclusive USA Today reporting. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the plan publicly, said the White House's fiscal year 2026 funding blueprint does not allocate any money toward Head Start and lists it among many programs to be eliminated. The White House declined to address allegations that Head Start was endangered.
The National Head Start Association warned yesterday that a proposal to eliminate funding would be catastrophic. The group's executive director said more than a million parents who rely on the program would not be able to go to work. You can read more with a link in today's show notes.
A Butler, Pennsylvania man has been arrested and charged with making online death threats against President Trump, Elon Musk, and immigration and customs enforcement agents. The Justice Department yesterday announced that 32-year-old Sean Monper made the statements earlier this year in YouTube videos under the name Mr. Satan. According to a statement from acting U.S.
Attorney Troy Rivetti, Monper obtained a firearms permit shortly after Trump's inauguration and made comments on YouTube in February that he had bought several guns and been stocking up on ammo since Trump got in office.
Over two weeks in March, Monper allegedly said he was going to do a mass shooting and that he'd been buying one gun a month since the election, in addition to ammunition and body armor. Butler, Pennsylvania was also the site last year of an attempted assassination on Trump at an outdoor rally. And happy Passover. The Jewish holiday begins at sunset.
Scientists recently had the opportunity to, for the first time, explore an area of water that had long been hidden beneath an ice sheet. What they soon discovered was that it was teeming with life.
Jodica Vermani, executive director of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, joins my colleague Dana Taylor to share this remarkable discovery. You can catch the episode right here beginning at 5 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow. And if you like YouTube for podcasts, you're going to want to watch this episode since we've got video of the creatures at the top. There's a link in today's show notes.
Thanks for listening to The Excerpt. You can get the podcast wherever you get your audio. And if you're on a smart speaker, just ask for The Excerpt. I'm Taylor Wilson, and I'll be back Monday with more of The Excerpt from USA Today.
Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday, March 29th, 2025. This is The Excerpt. Today the latest at USAID, plus a major earthquake slams Asia and some American travelers are fearing border crossings. Personnel at the U.S. Agency for International Development were told yesterday that all positions there not required by law would be eliminated.
That's after the State Department notified Congress it would discontinue USAID functions that do not align with Trump administration priorities. USAID staffers were informed of the decision by an internal memo from a member of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Over the next three months, the State Department would assume USAID's remaining life-saving and strategic aid programming, according to the memo. The death toll is rapidly rising after a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Southeast Asia.
The death toll in Myanmar rose past 1,000 earlier this morning, while at least nine people were killed in neighboring Thailand, where massive buildings were destroyed. In Myanmar, the U.S. Geological Service's predictive modeling estimated the death toll could exceed 10,000 and that losses could exceed the country's annual economic output. The U.S.
has said it will provide some assistance, though it has previously sanctioned officials with the ruling military. Some American travelers are fearing U.S. border crossings under recently increased vetting. I spoke with USA Today consumer travel reporter Kathleen Wong for more. Hello, Kathleen. Thanks for hopping on the show today.
So would you just start by telling us about Ginny Williams and her experience here?
So how does her either anxiety or experience reflect an increased anxiety from a lot of Americans and folks in the country about crossing borders in this moment?
And I mean, are legal residents actually facing detention or deportation in some of these border crossing situations?
Yeah. Well, I mean, in terms of those increases, Kathleen, what specifically has this administration really instructed immigration officials to do in this moment?
And is there anything you're hearing about, Kathleen, in terms of what folks are doing to prepare? Say they have a border crossing coming up, things they're thinking about. Is it about maybe deleting pictures or apps from a phone, thinking differently about how they pack or what they wear?
I mean, what are some of the considerations that folks maybe previously weren't thinking about that they are now in this moment?
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