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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Senate Democrats say they are opposed to a bill passed by the House to fund federal agencies through September. Congress has until late tomorrow night to approve a spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown. NPR's Deirdre Walsh has more.
After the House approved the six-month spending bill largely along party lines... Republican leaders called on Senate Democrats to back it or be blamed for a shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says GOP leaders don't have the 60 votes needed to get around a filibuster. He says Congress should instead pass a one-month stopgap measure.
Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort. But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input, from congressional Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune argued if Democrats block the spending bill, they will own a shutdown. Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol.
The Trump administration is working to get rid of significant environmental rules in the U.S. The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, said this was the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history. NPR's Jeff Brady reports the decisions could increase the use of fossil fuels.
Zeldin said the agency will reconsider rules that limit climate pollution from power plants and from cars and trucks, also regulations that limit soot and mercury in the air. Other rules that Zelden claims are hurting the economy and costing trillions of dollars. But that leaves out the fact that pollution also costs the country, you know, and health costs and cleanup. It's not clear whether EPA plans to get rid of these rules or weaken them. Those details should come later.
NPR's Jeff Brady reporting. The Kremlin says it's in the final stages of ejecting Ukrainian troops from a sliver of land in western Russia. Last summer, Ukrainian troops seized the region during a surprise advance. NPR's Joanna Kakissas reports from Kiev, Russia's military action comes as the U.S. and Ukraine await the Kremlin's formal response to a 30-day ceasefire proposal.
Ukraine captured a chunk of the western Russian province of Kursk last summer in a surprise incursion that embarrassed the Kremlin. Since then, Russian troops assisted by North Korean soldiers have retaken most of that land. Russia's defense ministry is claiming its soldiers have recaptured the city of Suja, an administrative center there. Following the U.S. announcement of a ceasefire offer, Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in military camouflage, visited Russian troops in Kursk. Putin rarely visits the front line of the full-scale war he ordered more than three years ago. Ukraine's military says its troops are hanging on to a slip of land, but acknowledge their situation is difficult. Joanna Kakissis, NPR News, Kyiv.
On Wall Street, in pre-market trading, Dow futures are lower. This is NPR. Some observers are raising questions about ethics in response to President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk showing off Tesla vehicles outside the White House this week. Trump said he was going to buy one. NPR's Bobby Allen reports Musk is a major Trump campaign donor.
Tesla vehicles, including a Cybertruck, were arrayed on the South Lawn as Musk dazzled Trump like a salesman. Richard Painter is a former ethics lawyer in the White House under George W. Bush. He says the limits of what is ethical in the White House are being stretched.
The signal is that there's going to be an economy that's good about personal favoritism and government picking the winners and losers. So now government's going to pick Tesla as the winner.
The Trump-Tesla photo op came as Tesla stock price tumbled and as Tesla storefronts and superchargers have been hit with vandalism nationwide. Trump now says violence against Tesla dealerships will be labeled as domestic terrorism. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
It's going to be really hot in southern Texas over the next couple of days. Weather forecasters say it will probably reach 90 degrees in San Antonio today before it cools off for the weekend. Meanwhile, this comes as a powerful winter storm plows into California, bringing a lot of precipitation. Very heavy snow will fall in the eastern part of California.
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