What recent military actions has the U.S. taken in Venezuela?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Critics say the U.S. strike on a facility in Venezuela is pulling the country deeper into a dangerous conflict. President Trump confirmed new details this week about the operation targeting a dock where drugs were allegedly being loaded onto boats. It's the first known U.S.
military action inside Venezuela, marking an escalation in Trump's campaign against the Maduro government. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports Trump had been warning for weeks that he was prepared to launch land strikes.
He first mentioned this port strike a week ago on a radio show. While he hasn't been clear about how the strikes were conducted, a U.S. official confirmed to NPR's Tom Bowman that the CIA struck the dock. Now, until now, the U.S. has focused on strikes on boats it claims are trafficking drugs and some oil tankers. But both of those operations have been taking place in international waters.
So this is a really big deal to strike on land. It's an escalation.
That's NPR's Franco Ordonez reporting. A federal judge has halted efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. NPR's Stephen Basaja reports the White House claims the agency has been operating in the red for years.
CFPB gets its funding from the Federal Reserve. The Trump administration argues that since the Fed has been operating at a loss, there is not the money to keep the financial watchdog running. But Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected that argument. She already has a preliminary injunction preventing the White House from shutting down the CFPB.
And she wrote in a ruling that this is an unabashed attempt to just do that in a different way. Other legal battles have prevented several mass layoffs there. But President Trump has been clear he wants the CFPB gone. Acting Director Russell Vogt has stopped most of the consumer-oriented bureau's work. And Judge Berman Jackson wrote that the CFPB is hanging by a thread. Stephen Basaja, NPR News.
Enhanced subsidies for health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act marketplace will expire after today. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports that means premiums will soon skyrocket for millions of Americans.
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