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What is the current status of funding for the Department of Homeland Security?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is going to run out at the end of the day today, unless Congress can agree on a funding bill. So far, they can't. Democrats want significant changes to how the Trump administration conducts immigration enforcement. There is some bipartisan agreement over body cameras for officers, but some Republicans oppose other Democratic demands, such as requiring ICE officers to take off their masks. Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Democrats are never going to get their full wish list. That's not the way this works. Republicans, for example, will not agree to measures that make it impossible for officers, for law enforcement officers to do their jobs. But Democrats can build on the measures that Republicans have already agreed to if they actually engage in serious negotiations with the White House.
There's no DHS spending agreement yet in sight in Congress. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. He says he thinks Europeans will like what he has to say in his speech tomorrow. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports that Europeans are still reeling from last year's lecture from Vice President J.D. Vance.
When Vance was here, he criticized allies for their immigration and free speech policies, warning that they're putting Western civilization at risk. Secretary Rubio, speaking on the tarmac before flying to Munich, says Europeans want honesty.
The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone, frankly, the world I grew up in, and we live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of reexamine what that looks like and what our role is going to be.
Speaking from outside the conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom says Rubio is more of a diplomat than Vance.
If we grade on the curve, it should be a good speech.
Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Munich. The top antitrust official in the Trump administration is leaving after a year on the job. Gail Slater's departure comes amid internal tensions over some big cases that includes high-profile deals, such as the proposed Netflix takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. NPR's David Folkenflik has more.
President Trump, of course, likes to be the decider on such matters. He earlier announced he would personally examine the Netflix offer for Warner Brothers Discovery, then said he'd sit it out. Warner has repeatedly rejected Paramount's rival bids. Paramount CEO David Ellison, a political ally of the president, visited with Trump last week, according to CNN. As an assistant U.S. Attorney General... Gail Slater was seen as a regulator who took questions of corporate consolidation seriously. But the Justice Department settled a lawsuit she had filed against HP's $14 billion bid to take over a competitor. And the deal ultimately went through. David Folkenflik, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Labor Department says consumer prices rose 2.4 percent in January over what they were a year ago. That rate of consumer inflation is slower than what economists were expecting and shows that inflation continues to moderate. Officials at South Carolina State University say two people were killed in a shooting in a campus residential complex last night. A third person was wounded. There has been no word from authorities about a possible suspect. The college is in Orangeburg, about 45 miles southeast of the state capital, Columbia. Activists in New York City have again raised the pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument. And Pierre-Sara Ventry reports the Trump administration had taken it down this week.
A large crowd packed tightly into Christopher Park in Greenwich Village, where activists and faith leaders spoke before a small group of elected officials. Raise our flag! Raise our flag! hoisted the rainbow pride flag right next to the American one. The Trump administration has directed that only American flags can fly at National Park service sites.
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