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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on immigration enforcement funding?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Senate is set to vote later today on billions of dollars for immigration enforcement, but first it must deal with attempts by both Democrats and Republicans to kill off the president's plan. to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the federal government. NPR's Sam Greenglass explains.
Approving three years of funding for ICE and Border Patrol should have been a cinch. Republicans do not need help from Democrats. But the measure stalled for two weeks amid GOP blowback to the unrelated so-called anti-weaponization fund. Earlier this week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch promised the fund was dead, only for President Trump to say he didn't know if the fund was scrapped.
Some Republican senators have criticized Trump of sabotaging his own priorities. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
A new study suggests President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., has helped to reduce property crimes in the city with little effect on violent crime. NPR's Kat Lonsdorff says the number of Guard members in the nation's capital is set to double as the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary.
President Trump deployed the National Guard to D.C. back in August of last year as part of a federal task force to fight crime. Researchers at the Niskanen Center in D.C. studied police and crime data in the city, adjusting it to isolate the effect of the Guard deployment.
What they found was that the deployment itself has had very little to no effect on violent crime in the city, which had already been trending down before Trump came back into office. The study did find that the presence of the Guard produced one notable improvement, about a 24 percent reduction in opportunistic crimes like theft and vehicle break-ins.
That has come at a steep cost to taxpayers, more than $1.5 million per day for around 2,800 troops in the city. Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Washington.
Close Trump ally turned critic John Bolton has reached a plea deal that appears to resolve the Justice Department's criminal case against him. A person familiar with the matter says the president's former national security advisor during his first term plans to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents.
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least nine people early today, according to the health ministry. We have more from NPR's Anas Baba.
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Chapter 2: How has the deployment of National Guard troops impacted crime in Washington, D.C.?
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