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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. House Democrats largely voted against a funding package for the Department of Homeland Security today, citing immigration enforcement tactics in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Congress has to pass a slate of spending measures by the end of the week to avoid a partial shutdown, NPR's Sam Greenglass reports.
Bills to pay for large swaths of the government have passed with overwhelming bipartisan support so far. The lone exception, money for the Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE. All but seven Democrats withheld their votes to push back on President Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Macklin Goode. The DHS funding measure also has money for the Coast Guard, FEMA, and TSA. In the Senate next week, the remaining funding measures are expected to be voted on as a package, making it impossible for Democrats to oppose DHS funding and support money for health, transportation, and defense. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
As Minneapolis remains on alert during the immigration crackdown, the Trump administration has now sent ICE agents to Maine. Maine's governor says people who don't have criminal records are being detained. Maine Public Radio's Patty White reports.
Governor Janet Mills says she takes allegations of criminal activity seriously, but that's not what the ICE operation seems to be about.
We're hearing about people who have not been engaged in criminal activity, who are being torn from their families, from their schools, from their businesses, and who are in fear, and their families and their communities are in fear. And that's just not right.
Mills, a Democrat, says President Trump's immigration crackdown appears to be centered in blue states.
What funding package did House Democrats vote against and why?
As of Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security listed 12 people arrested in Maine as being among the, quote, worst of the worst. For NPR News, I'm Patti White in Portland, Maine.
Americans kept spending last fall, even if they had to borrow money to do it. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the latest Commerce Department figures.
Personal spending rose by half a percent in October and another half percent in November. Personal spending is the biggest driver of the U.S. economy. But the jump in spending during those months outpaced the rise in income. Some families dipped into savings to cover the difference. Others put the balance on their credit card. The Commerce Department's inflation yardstick, which is closely watched by the Federal Reserve, shows consumer prices continue to climb this past fall, faster than the Fed would like. Prices in November were up 2.8 percent from a year ago. That's a slightly larger annual increase than the previous month. Figures for both October and November were delayed by the six-week government shutdown.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
A massive winter storm is barreling toward the eastern U.S., threatening to bring ice and snow from Texas to Boston. Forecasters warn the storm could rival a hurricane in damage to power lines and trees. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion. Trump alleges his bank accounts were unfairly closed after the January 6th Capitol riot. Trump says the lender closed his accounts because of, quote, political and social motivations. JPMorgan says it will defend itself. The National Institutes of Health will stop funding any research that uses fetal tissue. NPR's Rob Stein has the story.
The NIH says research involving tissue from aborted fetuses has been declining for years, and the agency now only funds 77 projects that use fetal tissue. And the agency argues that fetal tissue is no longer needed for research because alternatives now exist. The decision, however, is being denounced by many scientists and research groups.
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