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What are the key provisions and political battles surrounding the new Republican tax and spending bill?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattinglake. House Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging Congress will give final approval to the Republican tax and spending cut bill passed by July fourth, as President Trump wants. The bill narrowly cleared the Senate yesterday after Vice President Vance cast the tiebreaking vote. Three GOP senators joined Democratic senators in opposition, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, and Tom Tillis of North Carolina. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning of dire consequences.
When people start losing their Medicaid, when they start losing their jobs. When their electric bills go up. When their premiums go up, when kids and parents lose Snap funding, The people of America will remember this vote.
How will the legislation impact the national debt and what new tax cuts does it introduce?
The bill now heads back to the house for a vote. The congressional budget office says the legislation would add three point three trillion dollars to the nation's debt over ten years. It extends tax cuts passed during Trump's first term in the White House and adds new ones, such as no tax on tips or overtime. It also boosts funding for illegal immigration enforcement at the US southern border. A federal judge is temporarily blocking mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services. Here's NPR Shannon Bond.
The lawsuit was brought by Democratic Attorneys General from 19 states in the District of Columbia. They argued that sweeping job cuts at HHS and plans to drastically overhaul sub-agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, were harming public health services. U.S.
Why is a federal judge blocking mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services?
District Judge Melissa DuBoze said the states were likely to succeed in their claims. Her order blocks HHS from finalizing layoffs or fire. Hiring more workers. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cut more than 10,000 jobs in late March. But since then, HHS has reinstated hundreds of workers who Kennedy said were mistakenly fired. Shannon Bond, NPR News.
President Trump says he supports a proposal to alter a special set of U.S.
What is the Trump‑backed proposal to change census counts and how could it affect congressional representation?
Census numbers that influence presidential and congressional elections. Here's NPR's Hanzi Lo Wong.
A key set of census results are used to determine how many congressional seats and electoral college votes each state gets for a decade. The Fourteenth Amendment says those results must include the quote whole number of persons in each state. Still speaking while traveling in Florida, President Trump said he supports an upcoming bill in Congress that calls for excluding the millions of people living in the states without US citizenship.
It's gonna get in, it's gonna pass, and we're gonna be very happy.
During his first administration, Trump tried and failed to exclude people living in the U.S. without legal status from the twenty twenty census numbers used to reapportion house seats. Now a growing number of Republicans in Congress support excluding them as well as green card holders and all other residents without U.S.
What is the current status of the criminal trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs and the charges he faces?
citizenship. If passed, these proposals will likely be challenged in court.
Jurors in New York City say they've reached a verdict on four of the five criminal counts against hip hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs. They told the trial judge yesterday they were deadlocked on one count racketeering conspiracy. The judge instructed them to return to court this morning to resume deliberations. Combs pleaded not guilty to all counts, which include sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Legal experts say the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in a birthright citizenship case, restricting nationwide injunctions issued by lower courts, likely leaves some future U.S. born children vulnerable to being stateless.
How are advocacy groups using a new legal strategy to protect birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents?
As Teo Popescu with member station KUOW reports, advocates for migrants are staking out a new legal strategy.
In the decision, the Supreme Court left open an alternative path for those seeking to block Trump administration efforts to challenge birthright citizenship, a class action lawsuit. Now, some advocacy groups have revised their suits. They're seeking class action status to represent all pregnant people and children born to families without legal status across the United States.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the key provisions and political battles surrounding the new Republican tax and spending bill?
0:01–0:51
2
How will the legislation impact the national debt and what new tax cuts does it introduce?
0:51–1:39
3
Why is a federal judge blocking mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services?
1:39–2:07
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What is the Trump‑backed proposal to change census counts and how could it affect congressional representation?
2:07–2:53
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What is the current status of the criminal trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs and the charges he faces?
2:53–3:40
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How are advocacy groups using a new legal strategy to protect birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents?
3:40–4:39