Chapter 1: What recent actions has the U.S. taken regarding Venezuela?
Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, an escalation of his push against President Nicolas Maduro. The U.S. sanctioned Venezuelan oil shipments, trying to strangle its oil revenue. The country is selling what it can at a steep discount.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Karina Machado a big supporter of Trump's actions against Maduro, is vowing to bring democracy to her country and end Maduro's government.
We ask the international community to cut those horses because the other regimes that support Maduro and the criminal structure are very active and have turned Venezuela into the safe haven for their operations.
Speaking there in Oslo after around a year in hiding. The Senate votes on two health bills today related to Obamacare. Empire's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports Democrats in Congress want to extend so-called enhanced premium subsidies. Republicans are divided.
24 million people enrolled in Obamacare this year, mostly small business owners and workers, farmers, ranchers. Nearly all of them got enhanced subsidies to help with monthly premium costs. Now those enhanced subsidies are expiring and costs are going up dramatically. Ellen Allen's premium costs are quadrupling. She's 64, lives in West Virginia, and has pre-existing conditions.
The bronze plan without vision and dental with a monthly premium of $1,967.50.
Senate Democrats' bill would put those enhanced subsidies back for three years. The Republican bill would put money in health savings accounts but would not bring down the higher premium costs. Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board is opposing part of the defense policy bill, which just passed out of the House today and is advancing to the Senate. And Pierce Joel Rose reports the NTSB warns the bill would undermine safety improvements made after a deadly mid-air collision in January.
In an unusual rebuke, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy raised major concerns about a provision in the defense policy bill now before Congress.
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Chapter 2: How are health care subsidies changing for Obamacare enrollees?
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