On today’s show: Sahil Kapur of NBC News discusses how Republicans face a high-stakes clash over Trump’s legislative agenda. The ACLU took on Trump in his first term. Laura Kusisto of the Wall Street Journal examines how it will be tougher this time. Should awards season be canceled? Jada Yuan of the Washington Post reports on the quiet debate that happened amid the L.A. fires. Plus, a winter storm slams the Gulf Coast, players and the media clash at the Australian Open, and a symbol of hope among the ashes of the L.A. fires. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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Good morning. It's Thursday, January 23rd. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, how the ACLU is gearing up for the next four years under Trump. The case for awards season to go on amid the L.A. fires. And drama between the players and the media at the Australian Open.
But first, President Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders in his first few days in office, touching everything from immigration to international trade to transgender rights and more. It can give the impression, as the early days of many administrations do, that a president alone can run the government by signing orders behind a desk. That, of course, isn't true.
And President Trump will need Congress to move much of his agenda forward. Republicans seem ready to do that. But with a very narrow majority in the House and a growing rift between GOP leadership in both chambers, there's likely to be some internal party tension around how to achieve Trump's policy goals.
So there's still a dispute and honestly a growing clash within the Republican Party that's been going on for about a month and a half now. And there's no path to a resolution here.
That's Sahil Kapoor, senior national political reporter at NBC News. He told us that Trump will need buy-in from Congress to make things like his orders on immigration and border security a reality, namely funding.
He's going to need a lot of resources from Congress to be able to implement even existing law, let alone, you know, additional laws.
The House did pass a bill yesterday that would allow ICE to detain undocumented migrants accused of theft-related crimes. Immigrant rights groups and some Democrats say this would effectively take away the right to due process for undocumented immigrants accused of a crime. Others support the bill, with 46 Democrats joining Republicans in passing it.
But what comes next on the agenda is an open question at the moment. Republicans in Congress want to do a whole host of things, including approving more border security funding, repealing some Biden-era clean energy grants and extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts. But Kapoor explained that for now, at least, there's no real consensus on how to proceed.
Speaker Mike Johnson disagrees with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Johnson wants to do it all in one bill in the next few months.
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