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Why are prospects of a government shutdown increasing after the Senate rejected the funding bill?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Hours after the House approved legislation on largely partisan lines that funds federal agencies through most of November, the Senate failed to advance the bill. And Pierce Deirdre Walsh reports prospects of a government shutdown are increasing.
The Senate failed to get the sixty votes needed to advance a stopgap funding bill. Two Republicans and all but one Democrat opposed the bill the House had just approved. An alternative democratic proposal also failed. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the Democrats' push to add an extension of healthcare subsidies to the package was a non starter. And says they should be blamed if the government shuts down.
If they choose to vote against this clean, completely nonpartisan CR, then they will be choosing to shut the government down and they will owe the consequences uh be uh of what happens uh following that.
What progress was reported on the Trump‑Xi phone call about the TikTok ownership deal?
Both the House and Senate are scheduled to be on recess next week. Unless the two chambers agree on a funding deal, a shutdown could start on october first. Dear Walsh and PR News, the Capitol.
President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke by phone today. A call Trump says was very productive, yielding progress on a number of issues, including the fate of video sharing app tick tock.
I had a great call with President Xi, and as you know, he approved the TikTok deal. And we're in the process. We have some great investors, big some of the biggest uh In the world, American investors, great people.
How did the Senate confirm Michael Waltz as U.N. ambassador and what controversies surrounded his nomination?
Trump's speaking there from the Oval Office tonight, but details of the progress on TikTok weren't released. Trump has been trying to get a deal for U.S. companies to take control of the popular app from China, which is the China based Bite Dances owner, to keep it in the U.S. after Congress passed a law last year saying ownership of TikTok had to transfer into the hands of a US company or be shuttered. The Senate has confirmed President Trump's pick to be UN ambassador and Pierce Michelle Kelleman reports the vote to confirm Michael Waltz comes just in time for the UN General Assembly.
Senators voted forty-seven to forty-three to approve the former Florida congressman to serve as Trump's ambassador to the United Nations. Mike Waltz was briefly national security advisor until he mistakenly added a journalist to a signal group chat about sensitive information on US airstrikes in Yemen. The scandal followed him to his confirmation hearing where some senators questioned his fitness for a top government job. In the hearing, Waltz vowed to push for reforms at the UN and said after eighty years it has, in his words, drifted from its core mission of peacekeeping.
Why is President Trump seeking an emergency Supreme Court order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board?
Wall Street higher by the closing bell, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. This after an appeals court refused to go along with his efforts to oust Cook, who participated in Wednesday's Fed vote cutting its key interest rate. Trump wants to reshape the Fed's seven member governing board, which could place its independence at risk. He accuses Cook of mortgage fraud related to properties in Michigan and Georgia. Which she denies. A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that the University of Missouri violated the First Amendment rights of a pro Palestinian group when it tried to exclude them from a homecoming parade.
Celisa Kalakal of Member Station KCUR has more.
The judge ruled that the Chancellor of the University denied Mazoo students for justice in Palestine because of their viewpoint, violating the group's freedom of speech.
What did the Missouri judge rule regarding the University of Missouri’s exclusion of a pro‑Palestinian group from its homecoming parade?
The Chancellor says he denied the group's homecoming application this year because of safety concerns, but the judge found that was not legitimate enough to exclude them. Ahmed Khaki, who represented the group in court, said the Constitution protects the group from having their speech restricted. And that's exactly what the University of Missouri attempted to do by uh preventing them from entering the twenty twenty five homecoming parade.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why are prospects of a government shutdown increasing after the Senate rejected the funding bill?
0:01–0:56
2
What progress was reported on the Trump‑Xi phone call about the TikTok ownership deal?
0:56–1:36
3
How did the Senate confirm Michael Waltz as U.N. ambassador and what controversies surrounded his nomination?
1:36–2:53
4
Why is President Trump seeking an emergency Supreme Court order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board?
2:53–3:57
5
What did the Missouri judge rule regarding the University of Missouri’s exclusion of a pro‑Palestinian group from its homecoming parade?
3:57–4:39