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That's still shut down. The measure went over to the House. The House held a brief session this morning as well, but took no action on the funding bill.
The DHS funding measure is similar to a bill's senator's past last week, but that measure was rejected by the House. This morning, Senate Majority Leader John Thune explained to Fox News what's changed between last week and now. There have been lots of conversations that have gone on the last few days. I've been in touch spoken with the White House and with the speaker multiple times.
“And I think what everybody realizes that we have to do this now without Democrat votes, and the way to do that, obviously, is to do it through the budget reconciliation.”
It's not clear when the lower chamber will take the next step on the DHS shutdown.
President Trump says the U.S. will finish its military mission in Iran in a few weeks, and P.R.'s Quill Lawrence reports on Trump's first formal address to the nation since starting the war.
President Trump didn't say much that was new, repeating that Iran's military has been destroyed and promising more bombing to come. The President said the closure of the Strait of Hormuz was not America's problem, but should be dealt with by other countries that rely on it more heavily. They are decimated both militarily and economically and every other way. And the countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage. Iran's closure of the Strait has driven up the price of oil worldwide, and it's not clear any other country besides the U.S. could open it by force.
“Trump did not suggest a major ground operation as imminent, despite thousands of additional troops in or in route to the region.”
Quill Lawrence and P.R. News. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom is hosting a virtual meeting today with almost three dozen countries about the Strait of Hormuz. British leaders say they'll talk about viable diplomatic and political ways to reopen the Strait. The United States is not participating. Stocks opened sharply lowered this morning as investors reassess the economic fallout from the U.S. Israel war against Iran.
And P.R. Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial's tumble nearly 500 points in early trading.
“President Trump's address to the nation did not reassure financial markets. Energy prices are climbing again.”
Triple A's is the average price of gasoline rose overnight to $4.8 cents a gallon.
The Commerce Department says the U.S. trade deficit widened in February to just over $57 billion.
The imports and exports both increased during the month, but imports rose more. The news comes a year to the day after the president ordered double digit tariffs on virtually everything Americans buy from other countries. What Trump called liberation day tariffs were later struck down by the Supreme Court. Customs officials are now working on a process to refund $166 billion that was wrongly collected. Scott Horsley and P.R. News Washington. Realistening to NPR news from Washington. A medical examiner in New York State says the February death of a 56 year old visually impaired Rohinga refugee in Buffalo was a homicide.
The man had been dropped off at a donut shop by U.S. border patrol agents in sub-freezing temperatures. Ryan Zunner of Buffalo Toronto Public Media Reports on Rule Amin Shah Alam. Health officials say Alam died on a cold downtown street in February of a ruptured ulcer which developed from hypothermia and dehydration. The county's health commissioner notes the homicide definition includes negligence or inaction, not intent. The homicide ruling has hit Alam's Rohingya community in Buffalo hard. They are a stateless ethnic group who have faced atrocities in Myanmar for decades.
Community organizer Imran Faisal says his people fled southeast Asia to escape danger. There must be accountability and the justice must be served to honor his life. This tragedy has created deep fear within our community. The e-recounty district attorney says they are, quote, committed to seeking the truth and upholding justice. For NPR news, I'm Ryan Zunner in Buffalo. A Norwegian fishing company says one of its trawlers collided with a ship run by an anti-wailing group. It happened on Tuesday in the Arctic Sea. The Norwegian fishing company says the collision was like a terrorist action.
The anti-wailing group created by Canadian activist Paul Watson says this was deliberate and that the trawler was harvesting krill. It says this disrupts vulnerable marine ecosystems. systems. This is NPR.
