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President Trump is expected to sign an executive order this hour launching a whole of government
approach to tackling fraud.
“The President announced the effort in a state of the Union address last month.”
Here's NPR's Deepa Shiveram. Trump tasked Vice President JD Vance with overseeing the task force that will look into fraud on the federal and state level, in an interview with Fox News White House press secretary Caroline Levitt specifically mentioned tackling fraud in states like New York and California, both led by Democrats.
"We're going to turn every page to find and identify this fraud to prosecute the individuals who are engaged in it. This will be again a whole of government effort." Vance has also been tasked with looking into fraud in Minnesota, another Democrat-led state. Last month, the administration suspended Medicaid payments to the state until they came up with
“the plan to tamp down on fraud. Deepa Shiveram and PR News, The White House. The President”
slamming allies who are re-buffing a U.S. request for warships to help reopen the state of Hormuz. The Iran war is closure of the street, the strategic bottleneck. As an impact on global oil supplies and prices, but Iran's Prime Minister Abbas Iraq she says, "The streets open to countries not at war with Iran." "It is only closed to the tankers and ships belonging to our enemies, to those who are attacking us and their allies. Others are free to pass."
Meanwhile, the State Department is giving its embassies talking points. To try to encourage
more countries to impose sanctions on Iran's revolutionary guard's core and Iran's proxy in Lebanon,
his ball-up. This coming as President Trump seeks help again in reopening the state, more from NPR's Michelle Kelliman. U.S. diplomats are being told they should lobby
“their host governments to designate the IRGC and his beloved terrorist organizations,”
and they should work on that with Israeli diplomats. The diplomatic cable, seen by NPR, says that the Iranian regime is more sensitive to collective action than unilateral action. It gives examples of the history of Iran's nefarious actions in Asia, Europe Latin America, as well as across the Middle East. It also says that the goals of the U.S. and Israeli strikes are to, quote, "neutralize Iran's nuclear program, destroy its ballistic missile
program, disrupt its proxy networks, and diminish its naval capabilities." Michelle Kelliman and PR news the State Department. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is rallying other Democrats to help force a vote on a bill that would fund most of the Department of Homeland Security and their forgets staffers at the TSA, fame, and other agencies paid again. But immigration enforcement agencies would not be included, Democrats who've accused the administration of
flouting due process are demanding sweeping immigration enforcement reforms. From Washington, this is NPR News. Various forms of extreme weather is hitting nearly every part of the United States. The National Weather Service says, quote, "A major winter storm will continue to bring blizzard conditions. Have a snowfall, icing, and strong winds through today across the Upper Midwest and Upper Great Lakes. widespread severe storms are expected
across the entire eastern U.S. with the highest threat over the interior mid-Atlantic where there is a risk for damaging wind gusts and a few tornadoes, and blistering heat continues to build
in the western U.S. Today marks 100 years since the launch of the world's first modern rocket
from a snowy field in Massachusetts. Sam Turkin of memorization GPH in Boston reports the launch set the stage for space exploration as we know it." Massachusetts scientists Robert Goddard figured out that in order to reach space, a rocket would need liquid fuel, like gasoline mixed with oxygen. And even those first liquid field rocket a century ago only was a couple dozen feet. Liquid fuel would go on to become the
main propellant for rocket ships. Lori Leschen is a space scientist who formerly led NASA's jet propulsion laboratory. The space they started a century ago with Robert Goddard. Who would have even imagined? We launched a rocket every 28 hours last year. We the world. And that's because of Robert Goddard. The rocket scientists work was so meaningful that when buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in his pocket was Goddard's autobiography. From PR News, I'm Sam Turkin,
in Auburn, Massachusetts. You're listening to NPR News.
