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shutdown in U.S. history. Lawmakers passed a budget for the Department of Homeland Security.
“NPS, Gladiah Grisala's reports, lawmakers still face a tough, too-do list when they return”
from a week-long recess." The funding plans stalled in the Senate and then the House, finally gaining passage more than 75 days into the DHS shutdown. Here's House Speaker, Mike Johnson. You had request and demands on opposite sides of the conference that were literally irreconcilable
if you meet one group's demand, you can't meet the other. And so it takes a lot of time to get people to a consensus in an agreement on that." After a week-long recess, Republican say they'll work on a partisan bill to direct a new wave of money to immigration enforcement divisions that were left out of the new DHS plan.
They'll also face a June deadline to reauthorize a critical, but controversial tool known
as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "Clarity Sunnis and B.R. News." Gas prices soared this week. The motoring club AAA says the average national cost of a gallon of regular gas jumped nine cents overnight.
It's almost $4.40, that's up more than 30 cents in a week. Using energy prices mean higher costs, business analysts Jill Slesinger says Americans need to watch their spending.
“It is important to just budget in for this.”
Just note, if you can, find $50 or $100 somewhere for every month that you could pull back, even if it means a little bit less fun, be prepared. This is not going away anytime soon." She spoke to NPR as morning edition.
The government says the U.S. national debt crossed 100 percent of the country's gross domestic
product at the end of March. The Wall Street Journal reports that the country spends for every dollar. It collects in revenue. The government spends $1.33. Louisiana is suspending primary elections for its U.S. House seats.
This decision follows Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling Louisiana's congressional map amounts to a "unconstitutional racial gerrymander." And Piers Ashley Lopez reports that the map had been redrawn to create a second majority black district.
“Louisiana is a Republican Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced that most of Louisiana's”
primaries, including a closely-watched Senate primary, will proceed as scheduled, but not the house seats. Early voting in the state starts on Saturday and voting ends on May 16 for the state's primaries. Nancy voting has already been underway, Republican Governor Jeff Landry said the state
is sending notices to early voting sites to warn voters that even though U.S. House races will appear on their ballots, those votes will not be counted. It is unclear when Louisiana will hold elections for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ashley Lopez and Piers News. You're listening to NPR.
It's been 60 days since President Trump began attacking Iran, the war powers resolution of 1973, mandates a president must get authorization from Congress to continue a war after 60 days. But in Senate testimony yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth waved that off. He claims the current ceasefire has paused that legal obligation, Democrats object.
President Trump has dropped his nominee for Surgeon General Dr. Casey Means, whose nomination was stalled in the Senate, he has now tapped Dr. Nicole Sapphire for the rule, a radiologist and wellness influencer. Federal courts around the country have been overwhelmed by a surge in immigration cases, Hawaii Public Radio's Maddie Bender reports that judges in Hawaii are stepping in to help
courts in California. Federal judges in Hawaii have taken on more than 50 immigration cases from three districts in California. All our heaviest corpus petitions, in which detained immigrants alleged the government is unlawfully holding them in custody.
The eastern district of California has received more than 3,000 petitions from immigration detainees since last January, more than almost any other district in the country. Chief Judge Troy Nunley says his district is grateful to be outsourcing cases to judges in Hawaii. It was taken as toll on all of our judges, it was taken and not only the judges to take
the toll on our staff, and we were getting these cases at all hours of the night. Judges in San Francisco and Washington State are also pitching in to help the district's case load. For NPR News, I'm Maddie Bender in Honolulu, Hawaii. This is NPR.
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