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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Kuhlman. President Trump has signed a government funding measure worth more than a trillion dollars. It reopens the government after a short, partial shutdown.
Chapter 2: What recent government funding measure did President Trump sign?
But funding for the Department of Homeland Security only runs through next week. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports. Lawmakers are negotiating changes to immigration enforcement.
Congress has 10 days to find a consensus. Republicans and Democrats agree on a few fixes, but appear quite far apart on others. Here's Senate Majority Leader John Thune on the timeline.
Which I had argued at the time was way too short to allow immigration. anything consequential to happen but that being said the democrats insisted on it so those discussions will get underway but ultimately that's going to be a conversation between the president of the united states and the democrats here in the senate
Even if DHS runs out of money next week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement still has an extra $75 billion approved by Congress last summer to use over the next four years. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
President Trump is still insisting Republicans should take control of elections in 15 places and nationalize them. The White House said yesterday Trump was only speaking about legislation the GOP wants to pass. But NPR's Miles Parks reports after that, Trump doubled down on his demand.
This is the clearest we've heard the president just come out and say he wants to take over in some places.
In terms of where exactly he's talking about these 15 places, that's still a little bit unclear, though he did mention Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia, all places controlled by Democrats, all places with high minority populations and all places that election conspiracy theories have really focused since 2020.
NPR's Miles Parks reporting. The president has no role in elections. The U.S. Constitution spells it out in Article 1. It says states run elections, although Congress can pass laws setting national rules about voting. Libyan officials say the son of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has died.
And Piers Eya Batraoui reports Saif al-Islam was apparently killed in western Libya by unknown assailants.
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