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Chapter 1: What is the current state of public media funding?
Congress is considering a rescissions package from the White House that would claw back more than $1 billion of public media funding. Federal funding for all of public media amounts to about $1.60 per person per year. That helps bring you the news and podcasts you rely on from NPR. Please take a stand for public media today at GoACPR.org.
Chapter 2: What is President Trump's latest bill about?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. President Trump is pressing Republicans to rally behind his, quote, big, beautiful bill. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports Trump met with senators as the bill comes under fire from a powerful foe.
Chapter 3: What challenges does Trump's bill face?
The meeting comes as President Trump's spending plan and tax cut package comes under heavy fire from his former senior advisor, Elon Musk, who is aggressively urging lawmakers to, quote, kill the bill. Senate Majority Leader John Thune met with Trump, along with other Republicans, to discuss how to push the plan forward. The wheels are in motion on this. As I said before, failure is not an option.
We will get this done one way or the other, and it's not going to be easy. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected the legislation would add more than $2.4 trillion to the national deficit over the next decade. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
Chapter 4: How will tariffs affect American consumers?
Imported steel and aluminum just got more expensive. President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on the metals kicked in Wednesday, doubling what they were earlier this week. Trump said last week the tariffs are needed to secure the steel industry in the United States. Martha Gimbel at Yale's Budget Lab estimates the price of new cars will jump by 13 percent because of the tariffs.
Chapter 5: What are the economic implications of Trump's tariffs?
And she says other products will also increase.
Chapter 6: What is the international response to the Gaza situation?
You can look at the first set of Trump tariffs and how much that has been passed on to consumers. And you'll see economists arguing, you know, was it 97 percent passed on? Was it 99 percent passed on? Was it 100 percent passed on? that's a fun debate for us to have. But for the American consumer, it basically means the same thing. They're going to be paying these tariffs.
Gimbel, who previously worked in the Biden administration, estimates the average family will pay about $2,500 more for items if the Trump tariffs remain in place as they are. On the backdrop of Israel's offensive in Gaza, France and Saudi Arabia are leading efforts to promote the international recognition of a Palestinian state.
Israel is opposed to the effort and blocked the Saudi foreign minister from visiting the occupied West Bank. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from Jerusalem.
France and Saudi Arabia are sponsoring a conference in two weeks at the United Nations to rally support for recognizing a Palestinian state. Israel opposes a Palestinian state and is threatening retaliation. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharon Haskell.
Unilateral actions may lead to unilateral action on our part as well.
That action could include annexing West Bank land claimed by Palestinians, says an Israeli official who was not authorized to discuss that publicly. Israel barred the Saudi foreign minister and other top officials from visiting the West Bank this week, saying the visit would have promoted a Palestinian state. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Jerusalem.
Local police departments are increasingly signing on to a program that allows them to partner with federal immigration authorities. NPR's Meg Anderson reports the agreement allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, to use the local police agency's jail space. Sometimes it allows the police to do immigration enforcement work in their own communities.
The program is called 287G. There are now more than 600 law enforcement agencies signed on in 40 states. That's nearly five times as many as there were at the end of 2024. Syracuse University professor Austin Coker says that could have unintended consequences for police.
The longstanding criticism of 287G is that it sours the relationship between law enforcement agencies and the communities that they need to rely on to do their job.
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