Tracey Mumford
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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Woo! The big winner at last night's Academy Awards was Anora. The film about a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch won five Oscars, including Best Picture.
Sean Baker took home four of those awards for directing, editing, writing, and producing the film. He tied Walt Disney's record from 1954 for most Oscars won by a single person in one year.
And the 25-year-old star of Enora, Mikey Madison, won for Best Actress. She's one of the youngest people ever to win the award. She learned Russian for the role. She also took pole dancing classes and spent time with dancers and in strip clubs to study how they work.
It was a remarkable sweep for a movie that made almost no money at the box office. Last year's Best Picture winner, Oppenheimer, made more than $300 million. Onora took in less than $16 million since it was released in October. That makes it one of the lowest-grossing films ever to win Best Picture. Those are the headlines.
Today on The Daily, Times reporter Peter Baker on the growing rift between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. That's next in the New York Times audio app, or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
The Headlines · U.S. Economy Under Stress, and a Behind-the-Scenes Look at DOGE · 27 Feb 2025
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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracey Mumford. Today's Thursday, February 27th. Here's what we're covering. The United States economy is starting to show signs of strain under President Trump's aggressive agenda. It's still the strongest economy in the world, but economists warn that the relative calm that Trump inherited could be in jeopardy.
When he took office last month, there was stable growth and inflation was easing. Three of Trump's big policy moves could shift that. First, there's the widespread funding freezes. They've thrown billions of dollars of projects focused on infrastructure and clean energy into limbo, rattling businesses and states that had already started working on them. And U.S.
farmers took a hit when the crops they export for foreign aid programs got caught up in the spending pause. On the tariff front, Trump's plans to put hefty surcharges on America's biggest trading partners, China, Canada and Mexico, could cause prices to rise at home and trigger trade wars. Consumers are watching warily.
A recent survey of consumer sentiment showed the largest monthly decline in four years. And the flood of government layoffs is also contributing to the unease. The dismissed federal workers are a small percentage of the overall American workforce. But tens of thousands of people losing their jobs at once could affect what has been a historically strong labor market.
Trump has acknowledged that his policies could bring some initial pain. His plan is that cutting taxes and government spending, as well as other initiatives, will offset that. But even some of his biggest supporters have expressed concern about where the economy is headed.
Last week, Larry Kudlow, a Fox Business host who served in the first Trump administration, said, quote, "...at least for now, the economic signals are flashing slower growth and higher inflation. Not good."
One of the biggest economic issues that Trump ran on, the price of groceries, is still front and center for many Americans, especially egg prices. The bird flu outbreak has pushed those prices to record highs. Trump acknowledged the situation in his first cabinet meeting yesterday and... All right, y'all want to talk eggs?
His new secretary of agriculture, Brooke Rollins, said the U.S. was looking at temporarily importing eggs.
Turning to imports may only have a limited impact on the market since the U.S. consumes billions of eggs each month. Rollins said the administration will also be funding measures to fight bird flu, including developing vaccines for chickens. also at yesterday's cabinet meeting.
President Trump dismissed growing criticism of Elon Musk that's been coming from both inside and outside of the federal government.
As Musk's Department of Government Efficiency continues to fan out across federal agencies, looking for what to cut and who to fire, the Times has been looking at who is on that team. The White House has not disclosed most of the names of the staffers, and Trump issued an executive order that effectively shields the group from open records laws.
When some of the Doge staffers have gone into federal agencies to grill employees about their work, they've even declined to share their own last names. The Times has now compiled a list of known Doge staffers.
My colleague Nick Nehamas has been digging into who works at Doge. He says few of the staffers have any government experience.
Nick says many federal workers have told him they're concerned about the young team's inexperience. They're having to walk Doge staffers through how their agencies work, step by step. And in some cases, staffers have been fired and then quickly unfired when it became clear that their work was more essential than Doge aides realized.
Chief Justice John Roberts has given the Trump administration its first Supreme Court victory in its attempts to slash government spending. Late last night, Roberts said the government does not have to immediately pay more than $1.5 billion for foreign aid work that's already been completed. That includes AIDS relief programs and other life-saving humanitarian efforts.
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