Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What new battleships is President Trump announcing for the U.S. Navy?
President Trump is announcing the Navy will be building new battleships with what he says will be 100 times more power than that of the biggest of any warship ever built in the U.S. The president made the announcement at his resort in Mar-a-Lago.
These cutting-edge vessels will be some of the most lethal surface warfare ships.
The program, he says, will begin with construction of two battleships and expand to roughly two dozen President says they will be Trump-class ships.
The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me because I'm a very aesthetic person. alongside our partners in American industry, and we're going to have Pete Hegseth and Marco and a lot of very talented people involved.
It's part of a strategy the president says to create a, quote, golden fleet. The Trump administration is recalling dozens of career ambassadors. Officials say the president wants diplomats who will advance his agenda, and that's what Foreign Service officers sign up to do. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.
The State Department wouldn't comment publicly on the lists that have been floating around of the ambassadors being pulled back to Washington, but one official who asked not to be named described this as a, quote, standard process in any administration. The written statement says an ambassador is a personal representative of the president.
and it is the president's right to ensure that he has individuals who advance the America First agenda. Normally, about two-thirds of America's embassies overseas are led by career diplomats. The Trump administration has nominated few career diplomats and is now pulling them back from nearly 30 embassies, many in Africa. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
21 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As NPR's Rafael Nam reports, the lawsuit seeks to address an unusual stance that the CFPB has been adopted.
The latest legal fight is about the CFPB's refusal to accept funding for the agency. Under the law that established the CFPB, the agency is supposed to be funded by the combined earnings at the Federal Reserve. But under Acting Director Russell Vogt, the CFPB is defining that to mean profits, and arguing that since the Fed is losing money, the agency cannot request the funding.
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