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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.
Chapter 2: What budget resolution did the Senate advance and what are its implications?
Over the objections of Democrats, the Senate has voted to advance a $70 billion budget resolution that funds U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as the Border Patrol. The vote early this morning was 50 to 48 and done through the budget reconciliation process requiring a simple majority for passage. That measure now heads to the House.
Republicans are seeking to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Democrats in Congress have sought changes to how federal officers carry out immigration enforcement before agreeing to fully fund DHS. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on Capitol Hill yesterday. where he was pressed by lawmakers about the rise in confirmed cases of measles across the U.S.
As NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports, Kennedy deflected blame for the country experiencing its highest number of measles cases in three decades.
Secretary Kennedy has a history of anti-vaccine activism. He has emphasized vaccination as a personal choice rather than encouraging more people to get the measles vaccine as the disease spreads across the country. Here is Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware in one committee hearing.
Do you take any responsibility in your role for the situation that we are in with this measles epidemic? As I said, the measles epidemic began before I came into office. I'm going to take that as a no.
Kennedy said he's done a great job containing the spread of measles and stressed that it's a global problem. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina thanked Kennedy for his help containing the outbreak in his state. Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
Amid the ongoing U.S. ceasefire with Iran and American naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon says the Secretary of the Navy is leaving. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports on the departure of John Phelan.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that Phelan was departing the administration effective immediately. There was no explanation for the abrupt end to Phelan's tenure just one year into the job. The Iran war involves some of the Navy's most significant operations in decades, though the Navy secretary's job is more focused on training and equipping the force.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has taken an unusually active role in the recent firings of many general officers, including the Army's top general, over the wishes of the Army secretary. Phelan had been a major donor to President Trump, but had no military experience before he was appointed. Undersecretary of the Navy Hung Cao will now be acting secretary.
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Chapter 3: How is Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressing the measles epidemic?
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A separate temporary program that would allow Medicare beneficiaries to get obesity drugs for $50 will still go into effect in July, but Kubansky says it will now have to last longer and could cost taxpayers billions. Sydney Lepkin, NPR News.
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