Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell protests against immigration officers in Minneapolis. The city has been on edge since an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Macklin Good in the head.
NPR's Jasmine Garce has more on the rarely used 1807 law that allows a president to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement.
It's different from the National Guard deployments we saw last year in that the Insurrection Act goes further. It allows the military to carry out local law enforcement functions. Every person I have spoken to out here has told me they are furious and they have no intention of backing down.
So there's a sense here that we're at a boiling point and that invoking the Insurrection Act would only inflame politics. the situation.
NPR's Jasmine Garz reporting. Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Karina Machado met with President Trump at the White House today.
I presented the President of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump has openly campaigned for the award. The Nobel Committee says the Peace Prize is not transferable. Since capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump has been working with acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez. Trump has said Karina Machado does not have the support necessary to lead the country.
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Chapter 2: What recent events led President Trump to consider invoking the Insurrection Act?
Bipartisan health talks in Congress have stalled. Negotiators said last week they were getting close to a deal to restore health insurance subsidies that expired at the end of the year. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports.
After a burst of activity last week, bipartisan talks are floundering as the Senate heads for a week-long recess. Negotiators have been grappling with demands from some Republicans for tougher language on ensuring federal dollars don't fund abortion. And then President Trump unveiled his own health plan, which would not extend the subsidies.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, says she is still pressing to resurrect them.
To be able to advance something, we're going to have to have buy-in from the White House. I've told Alaskans I'm not backing down off the engagement. I don't think it is too late to salvage something.
Open enrollment for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans is now ending in most states. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
The U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Iranian officials accused of repressing anti-government protests. The Treasury Department targeted the secretary of Iran's National Security Council for allegedly calling for violence against protesters. The sanctions also affect 18 people and companies involved in a shadow banking network linked to Iranian financial institutions.
The sanctions block access to U.S. assets and businesses, but are mostly symbolic as many targets lack U.S. funds. Stocks steadied on Wall Street today. The S&P 500 rose two-tenths of a percent. This is NPR News from Washington. A proposal to tax the accumulated wealth of California billionaires has ignited a political uproar in Silicon Valley.
A health care union is attempting to place a proposal before voters in November that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of billionaires. The money would be used to backfill federal cuts to health services for lower-income people under the Trump administration. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to block the measure.
European soldiers have begun a military exercise in Greenland meant to show European solidarity in the face of President Trump's talk of making the Arctic island a part of the U.S. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports a meeting between the U.S., Danish, and Greenlandic officials failed to resolve disagreements.
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