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The Senate has canceled its remaining sessions for the week and is leaving Washington for a week-long recess.
“This delays votes on funding for immigration enforcement until after June 1st, tensions”
have risen between some Republicans and the President, over his announcement of a one-point
of a nearly $1.8 billion reparations fund for what he calls victims of government
weaponization during the Biden administration. Swing voters in North Carolina say President Trump is out of touch with their economic concerns. However, as the mid-terms get closer, the group says they're not ready to vote against Republicans. NPR's Ashley Lopez observed these voters in two focus groups this week.
These online focus groups featured 12 voters in North Carolina who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and then Trump in 2024. They were conducted by messaging and market research firms engages and say go. 8 out of the 12 voters said Trump is out of touch with their economic concerns and nine are more anxious about the economy than they were before Trump took office again.
Leslie B. who participated under the condition her last name would not be used, blame Trump's war in Iran.
"I'm glad he's concerned about the nuclear weapon, but what about people needing to
“put food on the table and get to their job?"”
None of the 12 voters who identify as independent Republicans and a Democrat said they plan to vote for Democrats in November. Ashley Lopez and PR News Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to Sweden for a NATO foreign minister's meeting and PR's Michelle Kaliman reports that before taking off Rubio again expressed disappointment that some NATO countries did not let the U.S. military use
their bases in the war with Iran. Secretary Rubio says the reason why NATO is good for America is that it gives the United States bases in Europe to project power in the Middle East. So he says he needs to discuss this with his counterparts in a meeting in Sweden. Another big topic is the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's efforts to get money from tolls.
"No one in the world is in favor of a tolling system. It can't happen. It would be unacceptable. It would make a diplomatic deal on feasible if they were to continue to pursue that. So it's a threat to the world if they were trying to do that."
First about the diplomacy Rubio says the U.S. is dealing with an Iranian system that is in
his words a little fractured. Michelle Kaliman and PR News, the State Department. The Democratic Republic of Congo's national soccer team has canceled a World Cup training camp because of the Ebola outbreak in the country. Michael Kloki reports.
Following the recent Ebola outbreak, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has prohibited the entry of foreign nationals who have been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan 21 days prior to their arrival in the U.S. The Congolese team is due to play Portugal in Houston next month in the opening world Cup match for NPR News on Michael Kloki in Nairobi.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Government weather forecasters expect eight to 14 named storms will form in the Atlantic with this hurricane season, and PR's Rebecca Hershire reports that's a slightly smaller number than average. The main reason for the relatively small number of storms is El Nino, the cyclic weather
pattern that makes it harder for hurricanes to form in the Atlantic. But that doesn't mean people in hurricane prone parts of the U.S. can rest easy, says Neil Jacobs, who leads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“Even though we're expecting a below average season in the Atlantic, it's very important to understand”
that it only takes one. We have had category five's make landfall in the past during below average seasons. And he says it's not just people on the coast who are at risk. Hurricanes and tropical storms have caused deadly flooding, thousands of miles inland. Rebecca Hershire and PR News.
The Atlantic hurricane season is June 1 through November 30th. There's an oppressive heat wave in India. It hit 113 degrees in the capital, New Delhi today. Some schools are letting out early for summer break and farmers are trying to do their work at night.
It's not supposed to get any better all week. Climate experts say India's rising temperatures are because of human-driven climate change. Stephen Colbert says goodbye to night. He'll host the final broadcast of the late show. What's planned for tonight's lineup has been kept a surprise.
CBS announced it was canceling Colbert last year, citing financial reasons, but Colbert and others have been skeptical that the decision didn't have to do with President Trump. The late show premiered in 1993 with host David Letterman. I'm Kristen Wright and PR News from Washington. Each story you hear on planet money starts with a question.
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