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Chapter 1: What is the current status of the U.S. government shutdown?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Still, no end to the partial government shutdown after the U.S. House rejected a Senate-backed deal to fund DHS. NPR's Anna Yukunanoff explains what happened.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says representatives are not on board with the Senate plan that would fund most parts of DHS through September, but exclude Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
This gambit that was done last night is a joke.
Johnson says the House instead wants to fund the whole department until May 22nd, and he says the president is on board. It's unclear whether the Senate will agree to the maneuver. Senators have already left town, and Democrats have refused to vote for any spending bill that funds ICE.
Separately, President Trump has signed an executive order to pay agents with the TSA as the DHS shutdown hits its 42nd day. Anna Yukonanov, NPR News, Washington.
Maggie Sabatino tells NPR the whole showdown makes a person, quote, feel like a pawn on a chessboard between two players. who don't know how to play the game. Sabatino represents TSA workers at Philadelphia International Airport. She's questioning why President Trump waited until last night to announce an emergency order to pay TSA agents again.
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Chapter 2: How are TSA workers affected by the DHS shutdown?
It makes you think hard. If he can order DHS to pay us now, why wait 42 days? Why wait the last time 43 days? Why have a four-day stint in between? Why wasn't this done automatically?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio predicts the U.S. war with Iran will be over within weeks and without having to use ground troops.
We can achieve all of our objectives with our ground troops, but we are always going to be prepared to give the president maximum optionality and maximum opportunity to adjust to contingencies should they emerge.
Rubio speaking to reporters on a tarmac in France following G7 meetings about wars in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe. The U.S.-Israel war against Iran is nearing four weeks. The Russia-Ukraine war has been raging for more than four years.
At a conference of conservative activists, a top Justice Department official said one of the administration's greatest accomplishments was pardoning January 6th riot defendants. Though, as NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports, the move was also among President Trump's most controversial.
On his first day in office, President Trump issued mass pardons to the people charged or convicted for their role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, including those who violently assaulted police.
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Chapter 3: What predictions did Secretary of State Marco Rubio make about the U.S. war with Iran?
Polls indicate that a majority of Americans oppose the pardons, and dozens of former defendants have since been charged with new crimes. Tom Dreisbach, NPR News.
U.S. stocks end the day sharply lower, with the Dow closing down nearly 800 points. It's NPR News. For the first time in U.S. history, a sitting president's signature is set to appear on paper money. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports its move that would break with longstanding norms in U.S.
currency design. The redesign includes the $100 bill, the highest denomination in wide circulation. In a statement, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says the change is tied to the nation's 250th anniversary. The first bills are expected to be printed as early as June, with other bills expected to follow in the months after. The move would end a decades-long tradition of U.S.
currency, carrying only the signatures of Treasury officials. Changes at that level are considered rare and typically tied to anti-counterfeiting efforts, not political figures.
Chapter 4: What controversial pardons did President Trump issue on his first day in office?
Experts say placing President Trump's signature on the $100 bill also adds symbolic weight, given its role in global trade, banking and cash reserves. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.
NASA is making final preparations to send its first astronauts to orbit the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. The crew of Artemis II arrived at Florida's Kennedy Space Center today from Houston and are quarantined. Getting to this point's been a long road for NASA. The mission endured months of delays because of fuel leaks and other issues.
But if all goes as planned, astronauts could head up as early as next Wednesday, spend 10 days traveling around the moon, then splash down in the Pacific. The Dow closes down 793 points, or 1.7 percent. It's NPR News.
This week on the NPR Politics Podcast. In Iran, President Trump is both escalating and de-escalating, pausing strikes on energy sites, claiming Iran wants to make a deal, but also moving troops to the region. We unpack what we know about where those troops are headed and how talks are playing out behind closed doors. This week on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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