Tovia Smith
speaker
125 appearances
23 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 21 Apr
Tovia Smith’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 — 16 in all, peaking in Nov 2025 with 10.
Appearances
Tovia Smith in Pierre News.
U.S.
District Judge John McConnell Jr.
accused the Trump administration of delaying food aid for, quote, political reasons.
He said the president's own social media posts prove his intent to defy a previous order to keep SNAP assistance flowing.
The Trump administration has said benefits would be partially restored, but it could take weeks or months.
Now the judge says additional funding must be tapped to ensure full benefits are restored immediately.
Anti-hunger groups call the decision a major victory, but worry the administration's appeal will mean more delays for needy Americans.
The Trump administration issued a short statement blaming Democrats for the lapse in benefits.
Tovia Smith, NPR News.
Temporary protected status or TPS for Venezuelans started in the Biden administration, allowing eligible individuals to work in the US and shielding them from deportation.
But the Trump administration says conditions in Venezuela no longer warrant the program, and they say it's become a magnet for irregular migration.
Some two hundred and fifty six thousand Venezuelans could now be deported and several thousand applications in process shut down.
Immigrant advocates say the move will tear families apart and put Venezuelans in danger.
The Trump administration has also been trying to terminate TPS for people from several other nations.
Tovia Smith, NPR News.
Landlords are getting written demands to share leases, tenants forwarding addresses and ID cards from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services Anti Fraud Unit, according to the AP, but the subpoenas are not signed by a judge or
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Trisha McLaughlin declined to comment on whether or how many subpoenas are being sent to landlords, saying in a statement to NPR that DHS would not comment on its tactics, but she added subpoenas don't need to be signed by a judge to be binding.
Failure to comply with an ICE issued administrative subpoena, she said, may result in serious legal penalties.
Tovia Smith, NPR News.
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