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a Republican budget blueprint. This would allow the GOP to pass funding for immigration enforcement programs with no democratic votes. On this vote, the ice is 215, the nays are 200, and let both one member voting present. The concurrent resolution is adopted.
The GOP wants to reopen part of the Department of Homeland Security. The agency has been partially shut down since Valentine's Day. The House vote only launches a process to spend money on immigration programs. It doesn't fund all of DHS programs such as TSA. Democrats have blocked immigration funding over the federal agents' killing of two protesters
this year in Minneapolis. The House has also voted to temporarily extend a government-spying power. This is part of the foreign intelligence surveillance act known as FISA.
“The matter is going to the Senate, but there is little time the key part of the law”
expires tonight. Former FBI director James Komi was in federal court in Virginia yesterday. He was released with no conditions. Komi has charged with allegedly making a threat against President Trump in an online photograph and PR's Ryan Lucas reports.
The charges against Komi stemmed from a photo he posted on social media last year, showing C-shales arranged to spell out 86-47. 86 being slang for "remove" and 47 in apparent reference to Trump, the 47th President. At the White House, Trump was asked whether he really thought his life was in danger because of Komi's post.
Trump has publicly called for Komi to be prosecuted.
The new indictment is in fact the second against Komi, since Trump returned office,
“the first for alleged false statements and obstruction was thrown out by a judge.”
Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington. The Ukraine is asking Israel to seize a Russian ship that it believes is transporting stolen Ukrainian grain, and PR's polina Litvina reports from Kiev. According to Ukrainian law enforcement bodies, the ship carrying the grain from Ukrainian occupied territories is heading to the Israeli port of Haifan.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has already warned Israel not to accept the ship and promised sanctions against those who are quote attempting to profit from these criminal scheme. Israel's Foreign Minister Gideonzar said Israel rejects quote this kind of Twitter diplomacy and called Ukraine's public accusation surprising considering the help Israel has given Ukraine during the war, polina Litvina and their news, Kiev.
Major listening to NPR News from Washington Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth will testify again today on Capitol Hill this time before a Senate committee yesterday he appeared before
“a House panel to advocate for President Trump's request for one and a half trillion dollars”
for defense spending. A senior Pentagon official told lawmakers the Iran war has caused the U.S. an estimated
$25 billion so far it's mostly for munitions fired at Iran.
President Trump is criticizing Germany's leader over the war in Iran, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized the U.S. this week for lacking a strategy for Iran. Trump wrote online he'll soon decide whether to pull U.S. troops out of Germany. Out of Germany where the U.S. has a substantial presence. The U.S. customs agency says it expects the first of the tariff refunds to go out
May 11 and appears Alina Seljuk has more. Companies that paid President Trump's tariffs before they got struck down by the Supreme Court began to request refunds on April 20th. That's when U.S. customs launched a special online process to file claims and importers have submitted claims for tens of millions of shipments.
Roughly a third of those claims did not mean the technical requirements from U.S. customs,
orders can fix errors and refile. The claims that did go through and made it past another layer of disqualifications cover roughly a fifth of the shipments that the government says are due for refunds. That's as of Sunday or about a week into the process. Court records suggest that refunds are already on the way for about 3% of the shipments.
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