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budget request is getting a lot of congressional pushback."
“NPR's gladiator Gressalis reports lawmakers want to know details and more about the”
cost of the war in Iran.
Pentagon officials estimate the Iran war has cost $29 billion so far, but that does not include
repairs to U.S. facilities attacked by Iran that could add billions more to that price attack. The Pentagon plans to ask for supplemental funding on top of a $1.5 trillion budget proposal for the next fiscal year that defense secretary Patex that argues will remake the military. This is admittedly a historic budget. It is a fiscally responsible budget, and it is a
war-fighting budget. But amid an unpopular war, many lawmakers are expressing by partisan frustration over the administration's shifting plans concerning Iran and a lack of information tied to their historic spending plans. Clutterty Seles and Piana is.
Republican-led states in the South are moving quickly to redraw their congressional maps ahead
“of the midterm elections. This comes after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted a key section”
of the Voting Rights Act. Alabama will hold a special election in August for new districts that were previously ruled illegal, and PR Stephen Fowler says voting rights and civil rights groups are challenging this. It reiterates conflicting realities here. Republicans are making these changes for political aims, fewer Democrats, more Republicans. But in the South, you can't disentangle political
aims from race and historic fights over civil rights, so for black voters those national aims just have a different connotation. NPR Stephen Fowler reporting. Separately, the South Carolina state said it has rejected a proposal to extend its current session to work on redrawing that state's map. Redistricting could help eliminate South Carolina's one democratic seat held by James Clyburn, a civil
rights activist. Production Market Calshy is now tracking campaign staffers to make sure they don't bet on their own candidates. This follows an NPR report on a staffer who made money from insider information, and Pia's loop Garrett has more. Calshy is a leading prediction market in the U.S.
It has hosted over a billion dollars in election and political bets.
Campaign staff aren't allowed to use these markets, but now Calshy is quote actively screening campaign staff to make sure they don't. The company's enforcement lawyer Robert Donald said Calshy is using federal election commission data to do just this. It remains unclear how effective this new monitoring system will be to prevent insider campaign bets. Meanwhile in Congress, representative Richie Torres, a Democrat from New York, introduced
a bill banning campaign staff from placing election bets on all prediction markets, including Calshy, Paulie Market, and predicted. Both actions come after NPR reported a campaign staffer bet and made quote thousands on prediction markets using insider information. Loop Garrett and Pia News, Washington. It's NPR.
The Senate is confirmed President Trump's choice for the federal reserve, Kevin Worsh, that term is for 14 years, though it was mostly on party lines with Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman voting to approve. A second vote is expected as early as today on Worsh's nomination to succeed Jerome Powell as Fed Chair. The Justice Department is filing criminal charges against the companies that managed the cargo ship that crashed into a Baltimore Bridge two years ago.
“Six construction workers were killed when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed.”
From members stationed WIPR Scott Masseyoni reports, the ship's technical superintendent was also indicted. Synergy Marine Private Limited and Synergy Maritime Private Limited, along with superintendent Roda Krishnan Karthik Nair are charged with conspiracy, willingly failing to immediately inform the Coast Guard of a known hazardous condition, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and false statements. Kelly Hayes, the U.S. Attorney for
Maryland says the ship used the wrong kind of pump, making it unable to restart after it lost power and tried to hide that information. Synergy employees, including its store-side technical managers, fabricated and directed the fabrication of safety inspections and certifications
related to vessel systems. The corporations could be on the hook for as much as $10 billion
in fines. I'm Scott Masseyoni in Baltimore. So effortly, the state of Maryland has reached a settlement with the owners and operators of the ship that struck the bridge. This is worth two and a quarter billion dollars. The settlement avoids a trial scheduled to start next month. You're listening to NPR. Each store you hear on planet many starts with a question. What happens if we refund tariffs? Why are grocery so expensive? An NPR we stand for your right to be curious
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