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homeland's security department.
“It's been partially shut down for more than a month.”
Democrats are still demanding changes in how ICE agents operate. The ongoing shutdown means some federal workers are not getting paid, like TSA agents and hundreds of them have called out or quit. Senate Majority Leader John Thud lined up the vote on the funding bill early this morning. But NPR Sam Greenglass reports, President Trump started to take action last night.
President Trump said he was declaring a national emergency in ordering TSA agents to be paid anyway. You know, it wasn't initially clear where that money would come from, and now whether he'll sign that still not long after, Dune agreed to this vote that would fund GHS with no funding at all for ICE.
NPR Sam Greenglass reporting, the DHS funding measure now goes to the House.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in France to join a meeting of G7 foreign ministers from the wealthiest democracies across Europe and Japan.
“NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports, Rubio will try to enlist support for the reopening”
of the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump's request of NATO G7 allies to help reopen the maritime route largely fell on deaf ears. Meanwhile, Trump has turned his back on Russia's aggressive war on Ukraine, which continues on a bayided, Alexander DeHoup Chefer, president of the nonpartisan policy group, the German
Marshall Fund of the United States, says the two wars actually intersect and show how much the transatlantic allies meet each other. The Europeans still need a strong U.S. involvement in the European leaders and President Trump have made a clear that they need European allies, and they need European allies support and reopening the Hormuz Strait to hoop Chefer believes this gathering offers a chance
to reset and redefine the transatlantic relationship, which is at a low point. Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News, Paris. The Department of Education says staff will be leaving its current headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“NPR's Corey Turner reports it is the latest move by the Trump administration to unwind the agency.”
The administration has cut the department staff by half and offloaded much of its work, and now it will move remaining staff out of the Education Department's headquarters in the Lyndon B. Johnson Building in August. It says the move to smaller offices nearby will eliminate operating costs and wasted space, and that the Department of Energy will then move in.
Education Secretary Lyndon McMahon calls the move a critical step in returning education
to the states, but leaving the Johnson Building is frated with symbolism. It was during the Johnson Administration that Washington created some of the most consequential federal education policy in history, much of it focused on helping students in poverty. Corey Turner, NPR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
In honor of America's 250th birthday this year, the Treasury Department says President Trump's signature will appear on U.S. paper currency. It's a first for sitting president. This follows news last week that the U.S. meant was clear to begin production on a gold commemorative coin that would also feature Trump's image.
That is also a first for a president in office. Since returning to the White House Trump is added his name to two federal buildings and introduced several government programs bearing his name. The federal government could soon loosen restrictions on a handful of peptide therapies for wellness and longevity.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has signaled that food and drug administration will soon reclassify some of them. NPR's Will Stone reports compounding pharmacies in the U.S. will be able to make them. Kennedy made the comments about a month ago on Joe Rogan's podcast. He said to expect an announcement on about 14 of these peptides in a few weeks.
The peptides in question are big in the world of biohacking and longevity used for immune function skin health tissue repair and more. Scott Brunner with the Alliance for Pharmacy compounding hopes Kennedy makes the changes, but says it will take time for the supply to be available. "We're going to have prescribers and patients dashing to their compounding pharmacy only
to be frustrated." A sketchy market for peptides has flourished under the FDA restrictions, but researchers also warned there is very little human clinical data on safety and efficacy of these therapies, which haven't been approved by the FDA. All Stone and PR news, and I'm Corva Coleman and PR News from Washington.
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