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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Illinois' Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker says President Trump is intentionally escalating violence in Chicago amid crackdowns on crime and illegal immigration in the city. Pritzker said he thinks Trump is using federal law enforcement as political props.
Let me be clear. Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities.
Illinois and Chicago are suing to stop Trump from sending National Guard troops to the city. The White House says the troops are addressing what it calls ongoing violent riots and lawlessness. ICE agents have targeted immigrant-heavy and largely Latino areas. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson says it's up to Democrats to quote, stop the madness on the sixth day of the government shutdown.
He's calling for the passage of a stopgap spending bill that already passed the House but is stalled in the Senate. Democrats want to extend health insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. President Trump and fellow Republicans want to temporarily preserve current spending.
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Chapter 2: What recent actions has Illinois' Governor J.B. Pritzker taken regarding President Trump?
The government may be shut down, but the federal courts are still open. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court, which began today.
The court's docket includes many muscular assertions of presidential power, assertions that likely will have a willing audience at a court dominated by a majority more conservative than at any time since the early 1930s.
Bottom line, the court could end up overturning a nearly century-old decision that established independent regulatory agencies with fixed terms and barred the president from firing agency directors in except for misconduct. Also on the docket is a challenge to Trump's massive tariffs, as well as a case that could end what's left of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
In addition, Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship is also back before the court. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
President Trump has announced another tariff, this time on trucks. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports U.S. companies will now pay 25 percent more to import some trucks starting next month.
Trump made the announcement in a social media post, saying the tariff would apply to medium and heavy-duty trucks. Those types of trucks are larger than standard passenger pickups and include vehicles like delivery trucks and semis. The White House in April started investigating tariffing these trucks under a law that allows the president to tariff goods for national security purposes.
The Trump administration has imposed several of these tariffs on goods including steel and aluminum, cars and car parts, some copper goods, and lumber. These tariffs are separate from the country-specific tariffs Trump has announced for most countries and which the Supreme Court will soon rule on. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
Wall Street is hanging near its records. The S&P 500 added four-tenths of a percent today. This is NPR News. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped recommending everyone get a COVID-19 shot, leaving the choice up to patients. The recommendations come from a new panel that was selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Before this year, U.S.
health officials recommended annual COVID-19 boosters for all Americans aged six months and older. Three scientists were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden today. NPR's Rob Stein reports they've made discoveries in how the immune system is kept in check.
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