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What is the Senate proposal to rescind nearly $9 billion in federal funding?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. Senate Republicans have voted to begin debate on Wednesday on a proposal to rescind nearly nine billion dollars in already approved federal funding. Vice President J D Vance cast a tie breaking vote Tuesday after three Republicans sided with Democrats.
On this vote, the years are fifty. And the nays are fifty. The Senate being equally divided, the Vice President votes in the affirmative and the motion is agreed to.
Only fifty one votes are needed to get the residon bill through the Senate. About one billion dollars in the package would be cut from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports fifteen hundred local stations as well as NPR and PBS. House Speaker Mike Johnson has joined the course of Republican calls for the release of government files on late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Johnson's break with President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi has escalated tensions within the GOP over the Epstein probe.
Why is House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding the release of Jeffrey Epstein files?
More from MPR's Claudia Crisales.
Put everything out there and let the people decide it. I mean the the White House and the White House team are privy to facts that I don't know. I mean I'm this isn't my lane, I haven't been involved in that. Um but but I I agree with the sentiment that we need to we need to put it out there.
Johnson said Attorney General Pam Bondy needs to explain statements defending the refusal to release additional information related to Epstein. House Democrats have seized on the debate to force procedural votes to release the files, drawing GOP support in some instances. Claudia Grizales, NPR News, The Capitol.
Authorities say the man suspected of killing a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband likely acted alone. Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio reports on new details in the investigation.
Who is the suspect in the Minnesota lawmaker murders and what motives are being investigated?
Fifty-seven year old Vance Belter is charged with the murder of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and with shooting and wounding Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. Both have since left the hospital. Acting US Attorney Joe Thompson says Belter left a handwritten letter in his car in which he says Governor Tim Wals wanted him to kill Minnesota's Democratic US Senators Amy Klobisharp and Tina Smith.
Belter claims. That people threatened to hurt his family if he didn't participate in this plan to murder Senators Klobuchar and Smith.
Thompson says there's no evidence that Belter targeted either senator. For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis.
The Associated Press is projecting that Andalita Grahalva Has won the Arizona's Democratic primary for a seat in the state's seventh congressional district. She is the daughter of Raul Grihalda, who represented Tucson and Southern Arizona in Congress for over two decades.
Who won Arizona’s 7th congressional district Democratic primary and what is her family’s political legacy?
This is NPR. Four independent voters are asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to strike down the state's closed primary. In a fifty one page petition, the plaintiffs alleged the current system is unconstitutional. And that exclusion from primaries is the equivalent to losing the right to vote. Roughly one point four million Pennsylvania voters are not aligned with either major political party. Syria has announced a ceasefire in the southern province of Suweda following sectarian violence there. Syria's interior ministry says more than thirty people were killed and almost one hundred others were injured in the violence. Government forces sent to restore order in Sueda ended up clashing with Druze fighters.
The latest conflict under Syria's new leadership began with kidnappings and attacks between local Sunni Bedouin tribes and armed Druze factions. Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson has died at the age of forty nine.
What caused the cease‑fire in Syria’s Suweda province and what is the current security situation?
NPR's Elizabeth Blair has an appreciation.
Andrea Gibson's poetry takes on dark subjects with both urgency and humor. The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables. Said if I could get down 13 turnips a day, I would be grounded, rooted, so my head would not keep flying away to where the darkness lives.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the Senate proposal to rescind nearly $9 billion in federal funding?
0:01–1:00
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Why is House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding the release of Jeffrey Epstein files?
1:00–1:58
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Who is the suspect in the Minnesota lawmaker murders and what motives are being investigated?
1:58–2:57
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Who won Arizona’s 7th congressional district Democratic primary and what is her family’s political legacy?
2:57–3:54
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What caused the cease‑fire in Syria’s Suweda province and what is the current security situation?
3:54–4:39