Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Monday, April 28, 2025. This is the excerpt.

Today, Congress returns to take on a new budget, plus what tariffs mean for the home renovation business, and get ready for a

brood of cicadas first recorded by the pilgrims.

Democratic Senator Cory Booker and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries launched a live-streamed

appeal from the steps of the U.S. Capitol yesterday.

The pair demonstrated against Republican-backed budget plans and addressed

viewers about the Trump administration's proposed budget that they said would slash programs

and housing, health care, and education that helped millions of Americans while expanding tax breaks

for the wealthiest. This is a time to choose. And we're either going to choose the side of the

American people or we're going to choose

this cruel budget that Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people.

That was Hakeem Jeffries. Congress will take up the fiscal 2026 budget proposal when lawmakers

returned a session today after a two-week recess. The administration's plan would cut billions from programs that support child care,

health research, education, and housing, according to the New York Times,

which obtained preliminary budget documents.

Trump has pushed for shrinking the federal government that he says spends too much money

on programs, contracts, and grants that do not promote the interests of the American

people.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said three young children aged two, four, and seven were all U.S.

citizens and removed from the country in recent weeks were not deported, but went with their

mothers to Honduras.

The children from two different families were put on a flight to the Central American

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