April 30, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Omnavaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, lawmakers |
| 0:09.4 | approve funding for most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending the longest government |
| 0:14.5 | shutdown in U.S. history. Oil prices rise even further as President Trump weighs options to end the Iran war and reopen |
| 0:22.8 | the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:24.4 | An immigration judge fired by the Justice Department gives an inside look at asylum cases |
| 0:29.9 | that the Trump administration has ground to a halt. |
| 0:33.6 | When I went back to that village and saw the grave, the brother who was killed in the attack, |
| 0:39.3 | and the scars on the father's face, I knew what I had done that day in July in the courtroom was correct. |
| 0:46.3 | And gold medal skier Lindsey Vaughn opens up about her devastating crash at the Olympics, |
| 0:52.3 | her recovery, and the chances of yet another comeback. |
| 0:56.3 | I, of course, don't want to end my career on that run at the Olympics, but I'm also, you know, a |
| 1:02.9 | realistic person. Welcome to the news hour. The longest shutdown of a government agency in history has ended with President Trump today signing a House-passed bill to fund most of the Homeland Security Department. |
| 1:26.6 | The administration had warned that money to pay thousands of federal security workers would |
| 1:31.3 | run out after today without new funding. |
| 1:34.4 | Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin is back with us here after spending the day |
| 1:37.8 | reporting at the Capitol. |
| 1:39.1 | So Lisa, what finally changed to end this shutdown? |
| 1:41.5 | You know, it was a matter of who changed, and that was House Republicans. As we were coming into today, there was pressure from President Trump and from |
| 1:48.4 | House Republican leaders themselves on some of their voters, and suddenly a rainbow appeared |
| 1:52.7 | on, as it does. Here's exactly what happened. The Senate had passed weeks ago repeatedly a DHS funding |
| 1:59.3 | bill. That bill funds most of DHS except for ICE and border |
| 2:03.6 | patrol. House Republicans wanted more of a guarantee that ICE would eventually be funded, |
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