NPR News: 04-23-2026 4AM EDT
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
What funding measures are Senate Republicans proposing to address the Homeland Security shutdown?
Senate Republicans are seeking to bring an end to the shutdown of the Homeland Security Department, approving a $70 billion funding blueprint after remaining in session overnight. The resolution would fund the ICE and Border Patrol agencies for the next three years. Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to get around Democratic demands for guardrails on immigration enforcement operations. The measure now goes to the House. The Senate has once again blocked a Democratic-led measure to limit President Trump's war powers in Iran. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports that Democrats say they will force a vote again until Trump officials publicly testify on the conflict.
Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin says it's long past time for Congress to put a check on President Trump's led war. Despite the ceasefire, Baldwin argues fallout from the conflict continues to build.
The president said that the war would be over in a matter of days. We are coming up on the two-month mark with no real end in sight.
Baldwin is one of several Democrats forcing the war power's votes to put Republicans on record. Only Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul defected to join Democrats who have argued for an end to the costly and unpopular conflict. And while most Republicans remain loyal to Trump, some have warned their position could shift at the war's 60-day mark at the end of this month. Claudia Gonzalez, NPR News, the Capitol.
Tensions are again increasing in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran attacked at least three ships near the Strait Wednesday and seized two of them. Jim Walsh is a security analyst at MIT. He explains the significance behind the Iranian attacks.
Two reasons. One, it need only attack a ship here and a ship there to remind those who want to ship oil or other goods in the Strait that they're at risk if they do so. They don't have to attack every ship. They just have to attack a couple, one here and one there. And I would say the second reason is that it offers them a way to achieve a sort of tit-for-tat response to the U.S. seizure of the two ships done by the U.S. ships engaged in the naval blockade.
The White House says a new deadline for the ceasefire President Trump has extended has not been set, and with talks stalled, Iranian President Mossad Pazashkian says the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports and breach of commitments are the main obstacles. Wildfires in the southeast intensifying some of the biggest blazes burning along Georgia's coast and around Jacksonville, Florida.
What are the implications of President Trump's war powers on Congress?
They burned over 33 square miles in Georgia and destroyed more than 50 homes. Officials in Denmark say at least 16 people were injured when two trains collided this morning north of Copenhagen. Four people reported in critical condition. The collision prompted a massive emergency response. This is NPR. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators Wednesday that if President Trump's nominee to lead the CDC is confirmed, she will make decisions on vaccines without political interference. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is a doctor who cast a key vote to confirm Kennedy as health secretary. He pressed Kennedy on Erica Schwartz's nomination during a budget hearing Wednesday. The CDC director has that power.
Now, so she will have, if she wishes to make a decision independently of them, she shall be allowed to make that decision independently. That's correct?
Yes. The previous CDC director said Kennedy fired her because she disagreed with his vaccine policies. Tesla reporting surprisingly strong first quarter earnings, although CEO Elon Musk cautioned investors that the company will be spending big in the months ahead.
How are tensions escalating in the Strait of Hormuz following Iranian attacks?
As NPR's Camila Dominovsky reports, Tesla continues to stake its future on new technologies.
EV sales helped drive the higher-than-expected profits. But that positive cash flow is dwarfed by the $25 billion Tesla plans to spend this year on things like chips, software, and manufacturing lines to build the humanoid robot called Optimus. On the sunny rooftop of the Tesla diner in Los Angeles, Optimus was not scooping popcorn, as it's famously done on social media—
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
What funding measures are Senate Republicans proposing to address the Homeland Security shutdown?
0:04–2:40
3
What are the implications of President Trump's war powers on Congress?
2:40–3:53
4
How are tensions escalating in the Strait of Hormuz following Iranian attacks?
3:53–4:38
5
What recent developments are there regarding wildfires in the southeastern United States?
4:38–5:03