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resolution aimed at limiting President Trump's military action against Iran, the Pentagon
“is asking Congress for another $80 billion to pay for operations in the region.”
NPR's Quill Lawrence reports.
Secretary of Defense, Pete Heggseth, is lobbying senators to provide $80 billion, mostly
to pay for months of war, and the thousands of cruise missiles, drones, and interceptors expanded after the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran. This comes as the White House is asking for a record $1.5 trillion for this year's regular defense appropriation. While defense hawks on Capitol Hill agree that the U.S. must urgently replenish its global
stockpile of munitions, the Iran war and the current ceasefire agreement are not popular. And senators from both parties may bulk at such staggering expenses when the American voting public still feels the pinch of higher prices at the gas pump and the grocery store. Quill Lawrence and PR News President Trump held a tense meeting with Senate Republicans today after he abruptly canceled the signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill.
Republicans had touted the bill as a major election year achievement, but Trump said he
“won't sign it unless Congress passes his stalled election security bill, which he calls”
the Save America Act. A federal judge has permanently barred the Trump administration from implementing most of
his first executive order on elections.
His order would have required people to show proof of citizenship to register to vote and prevented mail mail and ballots from counting if they are received after election day. For the first time in modern history, Utah has a safe democratic leaning congressional district. Both voters in Salt Lake City and surrounding suburbs overwhelmingly decided to send former
congressmen Ben McAdams back to Washington. McAdams is considered a moderate Democrat. He beat out two other progressive candidates in the race. While he will face a general election in November, the makeup of the district all but ensures a McAdams win.
“On the Republican side, all three congressional incumbents will keep their jobs.”
Both Congresswoman Celeste Malois and congressmen Blake Moore pulled victories against candidates to their right. Sage Miller and PR news. Stocks closed mixed on Wall Street today is losses for several tech giants weighed down the market.
The S&P 500 fell a fraction, even though Moore stocks rose then fell within the index. This is NPR news from Washington. Thousands of African immigrants are leaving South Africa because of a rise in anti-migration anger. Attacks have coincided with protests by anti-immigration groups.
Those groups have set a June 30th deadline for people in the country illegally to leave and the government to take action threatening a national shutdown. New projections from the U.S. Postal Service show the self-funded mailing agency won't run out of cash until at least 2031. And PR's Hansi Low-Wang reports it comes after the Postal Service stopped contributing
to workers' retirement plans. With people sending a lot less mail compared to decades ago, post-master general David Standard told Congress back in March that the U.S. Postal Service may have to stop delivery news next year because of a cash crisis. But Sider now says that has been delayed until sometime between 2031 and 2034.
What we are doing right now is we're basically borrowing money from our retirement plans to fund current operations. I'm not particularly comfortable with that. None of us should be comfortable with that. U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR.
Back in 1970, Congress passed a low that set up the mailing agency to be self-funded through selling stamps and service fees, not tax dollars. Congress calling for Congress to consider changing a legal requirement for the Postal Service to deliver mail at least six days a week to just about every address in the country. On Zee LaWong and PR News.
The International Olympic Committee will pay more than $100 million to athletes. Athletes can now apply for $10,000 grants and the money is not tied to how they did at the games. This comes after growing calls to pay Olympic athletes, nearly 2,900 people competed at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games.
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