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Welcome to Friday, everyone, from the KUOW Newsroom in the U District.

It's Gustavo Sagero.

You're listening to Seattle now.

Coming up, Washington officials say tariffs are already having an impact on the state's economy.

We'll go deep into that in a few minutes.

But first, here's our roundup of today's top stories. It's Friday, March 14th.

Washington's U.S. senators both voted no today on a spending bill to prevent a government shutdown. The bill wound up passing after Democratic leaders and a handful of members voted with the

Republican majority. Senator Patty Murray denounced this so-called continuing resolution, or CR,

as a blank check to President Trump and his ally, Elon Musk.

What Republicans are doing here is ceding more discretion to two billionaires to decide what does and does not get funded in their

states. It is a power grab CR. Republicans wrote the continuing resolution without any input

from Democrats, something Murray said she's never seen in her 30-plus years in Congress. Murray is the top Democrat on the Senate

Appropriations Committee. She broke with her party's leader, Chuck Schumer, on whether to back

the bill. Two universities in Washington are among the 50-plus schools under a new investigation

by the Federal Education Department. As Noel Gaskill reports, officials are looking into alleged racial discrimination.

The Federal Department of Education says the University of Washington

and Washington State University have violated student civil rights

saying they used race exclusionary practices in their graduate programs.

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