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Still, no end to the partial government shut down after the U.S. House rejected a Senate back deal to fund DHS.
“NPR's Anna, you can on-off, explains what happened."”
House Speaker Mike Johnson says representatives are not on board with a Senate plan that would fund most parts of DHS through September, but exclude immigration and customs enforcement and border patrol. "This gambit that was done last night is a joke." Johnson says the House instead wants to fund the whole department until May 22nd, and
he says the president is on board. It's unclear whether the Senate will agree to the maneuver. Senators have already left town, and Democrats have refused to vote for any spending bill that funds ICE. Separately, President Trump has signed an executive order to pay agents with the TSA as
the DHS shut down hits its 42nd day. Anna, you can on-off, NPR News, Washington. Now, Maggie Sabatino tells NPR the whole show down makes the person "feel like a pawn on a chessboard between two players who don't know how to play the game." Sabatino represents TSA workers at Philadelphia International Airport.
She's questioning why President Trump waited until last night to announce an emergency order to pay TSA agents again.
“It makes you sink hard, if he can order DHS to pay us now, why wait 42 days?”
Why wait the last time 43 days? Why have a four-day stint in between? Why wasn't this done automatically? Secretary of State Marco Rubio predicts the U.S. war with Iran will be over within weeks and without having to use ground troops?
"We can achieve all of our objectives with our ground troops, but we are always going to be prepared
to give the president maximum optionality and maximum opportunity to adjust the contingencies to be emerged." Rubio speaking to reporters on a tarmac in France following G7 meetings about wars in the Middle East and in eastern Europe. The U.S. is a war against Iran as a nearing four weeks.
The Russia Ukraine war has been raging for more than four years.
“At a conference of conservative activists, a top Justice Department official said, "One”
of the administration's greatest accomplishments was pardoning January 6 right defendants, though, as in Paris, Tom Drys' back reports, the move was also among President Trump's most controversial."
On his first day in office, President Trump issued mass-partants to the people charged
or convicted for the role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, including those who violently assaulted police, polls indicate that a majority of Americans oppose the partisans and dozens of former defendants have since been charged with new crimes. Tom Drys' back and PR news. U.S. stocks and the day sharply lower with the Dow closing down nearly 800 points, it's
and PR news. For the first time in U.S. history, a sitting president's signature is set to appear on paper money. And PR's Windsor-Johnston reports it's a move that would break with long-standing norms in U.S. currency design.
The redesign includes the $100 bill, the highest denomination in wide circulation. In a statement, Treasury Secretary Scott Besen says the change is tied to the nation's 250th anniversary.
The first bills are expected to be printed as early as June, with other bills expected
to follow in the months after. The move would end, a decades-long tradition of U.S. currency, carrying only the signatures of Treasury officials. The judge's at that level are considered rare and typically tied to anti-counter-fitting efforts, not political figures.
Experts say placing President Trump's signature on the $100 bill also adds symbolic weight, given its role in global trade, banking, and cash reserves. Windsor-Johnston and PR news, Washington. NASA is making final preparations to send its first astronauts to orbit the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
The crew of Artemis II, arrived at Florida's Kennedy Space Center today from Houston and are quarantined, getting to this point spent a long road for NASA. The mission endured months of delays because of fuel leaks and other issues, but if all goes as planned, astronauts could head up as early as next Wednesday, spent 10 days traveling around the Moon, then splashed down in the Pacific.
The Dow closes down 793 points, or 1.7%.
