It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Hope you had a great Labor

Day weekend if you were off. And if you worked so that everyone else could play, thank you. Thank you to the

restaurant and other hospitality workers. Thank you to the porters and other building workers,

the medical workers, the retail workers. So many stores are open, right? Thank you to the bus and train

and taxi workers and always to the first responders, ready for or actually responding to emergencies. Thank you.

Even to my media colleagues covering the news and keeping this and other outlets there for you

with information, entertainment, and the glorious weather forecast they were able to deliver

over the Labor Day weekend. And I know I left people out just saying thank you to all of you

for your Labor on Labor Day. So we don't take you for granted on that of all holidays, right?

And on journalists being on duty this weekend, you know politicians have this pattern. We've talked

about it before of doing some of their most controversial things on

times like holiday weekends, hoping that most of the public won't notice. So here's a little

roundup of things, including things like that. I didn't need to look further than the New York

Times to come up with this much. President Trump, if you haven't heard this yet, tried to deport 600 unaccompanied children

to Guatemala, and there was this whole middle of the night holiday weekend legal drama that

played out, playing on the tarmac, kids on the plane, and a judge ordered a halt, and the kids to be

de-plained, at least for now.

Also, the Times report, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would not issue visas to

Palestinian officials preventing them from attending the upcoming United Nations General Assembly

here in New York. The White House intends to cancel $4.9 billion that lawmakers

approved for foreign aid programs invoking a legally untested power to slash spending without the

approval of Congress. Maybe you saw the photo of Vladimir Putin. She's in Ping and Narendra Modi

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