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circulating a deal to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security and end the
more than month-long shutdown, but President Trump and Senate Democrats are indicating they do not support the offer, NPR's Sam Greenglass reports." "The negotiations have felt like whiplash, Senate Majority Leader John Bune said his colleagues had sold President Trump on a plan to fund the HS, except for the ICE Unit responsible for removal operations. That could be done later in a party-line reconciliation bill,
along with parts of the voting law overhaul Trump wants." "Maybe you can just say that my colleagues were more persuasive than I was." "A few minutes later, Trump threw cold water on that."
“"I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it."”
"And my naughty leader Chuck Schumer declined to say his caucus would back the deal as it is."
"As I said, we need reforms."
Senate Democrats and the White House are continuing to exchange offers, Sam Greenglass and Pair News, Washington. "The National Transportation Safety Board says the vehicle involved in a collision with a plane landing at LaGuardia Airport did not have equipment to show its location to pilots were killed in the crash in dozens injured, and Pair's Steven Castenbaum reports."
Investigators zeroed in on what the people in LaGuardia's controlled tower could see on their screens before the crash. "As DX is a runway safety system which allows air traffic controllers to track surface movement of aircraft and vehicles." "But NTSB chair Jennifer Hammondy said the controllers couldn't see information about
the fire trucks exact location."
“"So in this case, that ground that vehicle did not have a transponder."”
"It's not clear whether different controllers were talking to the pilot and the driver of the fire trucks on day-night." "There were two people in the cab. Two people in the tower cab." Investigators are set to interview the controllers soon.
For NPR News, I'm Steve Castenbaum in New York. American drivers are spending 15% more on gas than a year ago, according to the Bank of America Institute, but so far, consumers do not appear to be pulling back on other spending, and Pair's Steven Bessaha reports. "GENZI and millennials are especially vulnerable to high gas prices.
That's according to credit and debit card data from the Bank of America Institute, which shows young adults spend a higher amount on gas compared with their discretionary spending." David Hensley is the Institute's chief economist, and he says gas prices have not
“caused Americans to pull back on overall spending yet.”
"Right now, the consumer is sort of holding up, and this will all come down to how long this oil price gasoline price short laughs, of course." Tensley says the high gas prices could also cut into the benefits Americans get from higher tax refunds this year, Steven Bessaha and Pair News. "A huge heat dome is spreading across the U.S. shattering March temperature records, parts
of the planes will reach the 90s tomorrow, forecasts are say the pattern will last in the next week. This is NPR News." Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France to try to sell skeptical allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring, Rubio will attend a G-7 foreign
ministers' meeting to discuss what the State Department says is "shared security concerns and opportunities for cooperation." It says the talks will focus on the Middle East, the Russia Ukraine war, and other threats to peace and stability. A network of families that has helped scientists understand Alzheimer's disease is facing
an uncertain future, and Pair's John Hamilton reports. The family's carry very rare gene mutations that cause Alzheimer's to appear in Middle Age. For nearly two decades, the National Institutes of Health has funded research on these families through a group called the "Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network."
Dr. Tammy Benzinger of Washu Medicine says it's unclear whether that will continue amid cuts in research by the Trump administration. "The network that's been built up without funding all of that would fall apart."
In 2025, the NIH rejected a grant application that would have brought about $13 million in
the first year. Instead, the network got about 8 million and no money for international sites which account for about half of its families. The current funding is scheduled to run out on June 30, John Hamilton and PR News. As U.S. workers outlook on the job market is increasingly pessimistic according to a new
Gallup survey, just 28 percent of workers in the survey conducted at the end of 2025 called it a "good time" to find a job in mid 2022, 70 percent said it was a "good time." pessimism is especially pronounced among young people in college graduates in general. This is NPR.
