Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025. This is the excerpt.

Today we recap elections in Wisconsin and Florida, plus mass layoffs hit the Department of Health and Human Services and how Department

of Agriculture cuts are impacting food banks.

Wisconsin voters elected Susan Crawford to the state Supreme Court yesterday, maintaining the

court's four-three liberal majority. The election was widely seen as an early referendum on

President Donald Trump's presidency,

and the campaign became the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history,

with more than $90 million spent by the candidates, the state parties, and outside groups,

according to New York University's Brennan Center.

But in another test of Trump's presidency, two Florida Republicans won their special elections to fill U.S. House vacancies created by Trump's cabinet picks,

though the GOP's margin in the solidly red districts was slashed compared with just five months ago.

Republicans had been expected to easily hold both seats.

Republican State Senator Randy Fine defeated Democrat Josh Wheel, a public school educator,

and Republican State Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Petronis, defeated Democrat Gary Valamont, a gun violence

prevention activist. Margins of victory in those same districts were essentially cut in half for Republicans

compared with results there from November. Republicans now have a House majority of 220 to 213.

Mass layoffs began yesterday at the Department of Health and Human Services.

I spoke with USA Today, Domestic Security correspondent Josh Meyer for more.

Thanks for joining me, Josh.

As always a pleasure.

So Josh, we saw mass layoffs yesterday, Tuesday at the Department of Health and Human Services. Which positions, which sectors were

really slashed in particular? Taylor, it's hard for us to keep track of all this. As one person

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