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Why are lawmakers upset about the administration’s pocket rescission of $800 million?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. Lawmakers are frustrated over the administration's refusal to send hundreds of millions of dollars allocated by Congress out to its intended recipients. The maneuver called a pocket rescission is illegal, according to the nonpartisan watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office, NPR congressional reporter, Eric McDaniel has more.
Congress has the power of the purse. They get to decide where and how money is spent. But for the second year in a row, the president is making some of those decisions himself. He withheld $800 million from programs that touch immigrant services, racial and sexual minority work, and climate change programs, and appropriators on the Hill are upset. Republican Susan Collins of Maine says this is the most recent attempt by the White House to undermine Congress's constitutional powers. Her Democratic counterpart, Patty Murray of Washington, called it theft, and the top Democrat on the House budget committee, Brandon.
How are rising diesel and heating‑oil prices affecting farmers and the food supply chain?
Boyle says quote Donald Trump knows he can't get these cuts through Congress, so he is illegally making them through the back door. Eric McDaniel and PR News in Washington.
Diesel prices have slipped a little, but the war in Iran continues to strain fuel supplies. NPR's Windsor Johnson reports the concern now is how long higher costs could keep working their way.
Farmers in many parts of the country are still paying much more to run combines, tractors, and trucks during the fall harvest. Higher fuel costs can move through the food supply chain and the pressure may last. Diesel and home heating oil draw on the same tight fuel supply as winter approaches. Some shipping costs are set by contractors, so shoppers may not see the full effect right away. US fuel inventories are low, leaving little cushion if supplies are disrupted again.
What is the current status of Hurricane Nolo and its impact on Hawaii’s Big Island?
That's why a modest drop in diesel prices offers only limited relief. The Trump administration has discussed expanding US refining capacity, but has not announced an immediate measure to lower prices. Windsor Johnston NPR News. A hurricane
watch has been lifted for Hawaii's big island. Local officials are now taking stock of the storm's aftermath.
The impacts from Hurricane Nolo are beginning to ease, including threats of flooding and a storm surge that's according to the National Hurricane Center. NOLO dumped several inches of rain across the Big Island on Saturday, which led to flooding on a number of roads. On Sunday morning, thousands were without power on Big Island and Maui. Nolo remains just south of the Hawaiian Islands and is expected to strengthen again into a major hurricane over the next twenty-four hours before weakening later in the week.
How are recent floods in the Northeast disrupting travel and power for residents?
Juliana Kim, NPR News, Honolulu.
Drenching rains continued to saturate shorelines in the northeastern U.S. today. Another round of flooding hit low lying areas of New York and New Jersey and led to many power outages. Travel by land and air have been disrupted throughout the weekend. This is NPR. In a visit to Lourdes France today, Pope Leo the fourteenth spoke out against legislative efforts in France and elsewhere to allow adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medications, declaring those in extreme pain have an inherent dignity that no law can eliminate. A hundred fifty thousand people, many in wheelchairs, attended the mass led by the Pope. The zoo in Atlanta is welcoming two new giant pandas.
Why are two giant pandas arriving at Zoo Atlanta and what does the loan mean for conservation?
They arrived from China this morning, part of a new agreement between the US and Chinese governments. The loan of pandas is part of China's global diplomacy program. NPR's Kristen Wright
has
more.
Male panda Pingping, who's six, and female Fu Xuang, who's five, flew in on Boeing's FedEx Panda Express Jet. The giant pandas will stay in quarantine for about a month in Zoo Atlanta's new panda complex before they're introduced to the public on a date to be announced later. Pingping and Fu Xuang are in Atlanta for ten years through a new conservation agreement between the zoo and the China Wildlife Conservation Association.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why are lawmakers upset about the administration’s pocket rescission of $800 million?
0:01–0:55
2
How are rising diesel and heating‑oil prices affecting farmers and the food supply chain?
0:55–1:47
3
What is the current status of Hurricane Nolo and its impact on Hawaii’s Big Island?
1:47–2:41
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How are recent floods in the Northeast disrupting travel and power for residents?
2:41–3:27
5
Why are two giant pandas arriving at Zoo Atlanta and what does the loan mean for conservation?
3:27–4:15
6
Can clergy‑run Democratic candidates win support from the party’s secular base?
4:15–5:03