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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
What is the current status of the Department of Homeland Security funding?
The Department of Homeland Security could partially shut down late tomorrow unless Congress passes a spending bill for it. Democrats and Republicans are far apart on potential changes to immigration enforcement.
How are immigration enforcement changes being debated in Congress?
This morning, three top officials that oversee immigration will testify before a Senate committee. The House has voted to rebuff President Trump's emergency tariffs on goods from Canada.
What impact do President Trump's emergency tariffs have on the economy?
Six Republicans joined the Democrats in yesterday's vote, as NPR's Franco Ordonez reports.
Republicans have faced increasing pressure from constituents about high costs, and the business community is afraid to invest with all the uncertainty. Brendan Duke, who served at the National Economic Council in the Biden White House, says a new Congressional Budget Office report shows that companies are passing on 95 percent of those costs to consumers.
Which flies directly in the face of the justifications that Trump and his entire administration has given. for these sweeping taxes.
And Trump is pushing back.
What are the implications of the Trump administration's rollback on EPA regulations?
Last night, he threatened to support primary challengers against any Republican who votes against his terrorists. Franco, Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
President Trump is poised to announce a rollback today to a key scientific finding used by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA uses the Clean Air Act to regulate how fossil fuels are burned in the U.S., limiting global warming. The Trump administration now argues it cannot use the Clean Air Act to do this anymore. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is in Venezuela for three days.
What recent events have occurred involving military actions near the U.S.-Mexico border?
He is reviewing that country's oil industry. Last month, U.S. seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Congressional Democrats have since questioned the Trump administration's decision to grant no-bid licenses to two companies to sell Venezuelan oil. Democrats claim one company is reportedly tied to a major Trump donor.
What are the highlights of the U.S. men's ice hockey team's performance at the Winter Olympics?
The Trump administration says a U.S. military laser shot down what it said was a drug cartel drone near El Paso, Texas. It now appears that the target may actually have been a party balloon. NPR's Greg Myhre has details.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the military and the Federal Aviation Administration, quote, acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized. The FAA also announced the highly unusual step of closing El Paso's airspace for 10 days, then lifted the ban several hours later. However, a U.S. official familiar with the matter, but not authorized to speak publicly, gave NPR's Tom Bowman a different account. The source said the Pentagon recently authorized Customs and Border Protection to use the high-energy laser. The agency then shot down a suspected drone, but it now appears the object was a Mylar party balloon that posed no threat. Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington.
This is NPR. Four Democratic-led states are suing the Trump administration. This is over $600 million in cuts to public health grants. The states are California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota. Many of the biggest cuts are to HIV programs. Last week, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from holding up more than $10 billion to five Democratic states. That money was intended for child care. Police in Canada are looking for the motive of an 18-year-old woman who killed six people at a school in northern British Columbia this week. She also killed two more people at her home before taking her own life. At the Winter Olympic Games, the U.S. men's ice hockey team will make its debut tonight.
That's in a preliminary match against Latvia. Steve Futterman reports from Milan.
competition with hopes of winning its first Olympic gold medal since the famous miracle on ice in 1980. This is the first time NHL players will compete in the Winter Games in 12 years and the American squad is loaded with big names including Captain Austin Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
I think all of us feel the same way. I mean I think we feel like we're up there and
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:03
2
What is the current status of the Department of Homeland Security funding?
0:03–0:14
3
How are immigration enforcement changes being debated in Congress?
0:14–0:25
4
What impact do President Trump's emergency tariffs have on the economy?
0:25–1:01
5
What are the implications of the Trump administration's rollback on EPA regulations?
1:01–1:35
6
What recent events have occurred involving military actions near the U.S.-Mexico border?
1:35–1:57
7
What are the highlights of the U.S. men's ice hockey team's performance at the Winter Olympics?
1:57–4:39