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What significant changes occurred in the Trump administration?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. In a dramatic cabinet shakeup, President Trump's firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Trump broke the news on Truth Social today that he planned on replacing battle DHS secretary with Oklahoma Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, effective March 31st. Mullen told reporters he did not expect Trump's phone call today.
The phone call I got from the president was right before the statement went out. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports the Senate would have to confirm Mullen. The move comes after Noem had two combative hearings on Capitol Hill this week. She has faced bipartisan criticism over how her agency handled the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, where federal agents killed two citizens.
Members also grilled Noem on department spending, for example on a luxury jet and a border security ad campaign. Trump said Noem will be the new special envoy to a security initiative including Central and South American countries. That initiative will be announced on Saturday. Mark Wayne Mullen served in the House for a decade before becoming a senator in 2023.
Prior to becoming a lawmaker, he was a business owner and mixed martial arts fighter. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House. This hour, the U.S. House is set to hold a vote to limit President Trump's war powers in Iran. NPR's Claire Grisala says the chamber is taking up the resolution a day after a similar measure was voted down in the Senate, mostly along party lines.
Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey and California Democrat Ro Khanna have teamed up again to force the vote to block further military operations in Iran. Why are we going to war with Iran? This vote on Iran is not a procedural vote. It is a profoundly moral vote. The two have used a special legislative vehicle to push the vote to the floor against the objections of House GOP leaders.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has said if the effort were to be successful, it would endanger U.S. troops and trigger new threats for Americans. Ever since the Cold War, presidents of both parties have asserted the right to order military into battle. in limited ways, without authorization from Congress. Claudia de Salas, NPR News. It's day six of the Iran war.
NPR's Carrie Khan reports from Tel Aviv. Israel and the U.S. say they are hitting major aerial infrastructure. The Israeli military said Thursday that its air force dismantled an armed ballistic missile launcher near the city of Qom and an Iranian air defense system in Ishfahan. Market reaction to higher oil prices. Earlier, the Dow tanked more than 1,000 points. It's now down 784 points.
And Pierre-Raphael Nam says investors are worried the war will affect more countries in the Middle East. And shipping traffic in the critical strait of Hormuz continues to be at a standstill, with oil tankers and other vessels unable to pass through.
Surging oil prices are raising the prospect of higher inflation around the world and here in the U.S., and investors don't see a clear end to the war with Iran, meaning global financial markets are likely to remain on edge for a while. That's Rafael Nam. It's NPR. More houses are being built not for selling, but for renting, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
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