GOP Pushback On Trump, DNC 2024 Election Autopsy Report, Trump's Interest In Cuba
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
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The Democratic National Committee has released its long-delayed 2024 election autopsy report, a nearly 200-page document filled with disclaimers that much of the data could not be verified and containing almost no serious discussion of the economy.
President Trump hinted at military action against Cuba after the U.S. indicted former Cuban President Raul Castro, drawing direct comparisons to the events that preceded the capture of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro.
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(0:00) Introduction
(01:59) GOP Pushback On Trump
(05:47) DNC 2024 Election Autopsy Report
(09:35) Trump's Interest In Cuba
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| 0:00.0 | Congress left Washington without meeting the president's deadline to pass immigration funding. |
| 0:07.0 | Money for his ballroom was blocked, and even some Republicans are questioning his anti-weaponization fund. |
| 0:12.3 | Is a new chapter of GOP pushback beginning. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Steve Inskeep with Laila Fottle, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:21.0 | Democrats released a long-delayed report on their 2024 election defeat. |
| 0:26.2 | Their data is inconclusive, and the economy has only mentioned a few times in the whole |
| 0:30.6 | report. |
| 0:31.1 | Are Democrats learning the right lessons? |
| 0:33.0 | And President Trump is hinting at military action in Cuba. |
| 0:36.5 | Other presidents have looked at this for |
| 0:38.5 | 50, 60 years doing something, and it looks like I'll be the one that does it. The U.S. charged |
| 0:44.8 | former Cuban President Raul Castro with murder and it's drawing comparisons to the capture of |
| 0:49.7 | Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro. Stay with us. We'll give you the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:04.3 | The week ends with what appears to be growing discord within the GOP. |
| 1:09.2 | House Republicans called off a vote Thursday night on a resolution that would have restrained the president's war powers. House Speaker |
| 1:11.0 | Mike Johnson wanted Republicans to defeat that measure, but he couldn't round up enough support |
| 1:15.4 | to do so, so he didn't allow them to vote at all. Both the House and Senate left for a week-long recess, |
| 1:20.5 | also without meeting President Trump's June 1st deadline to pass his top priority. That was funding |
| 1:26.4 | immigration enforcement for the next three years through |
| 1:28.9 | what's called a reconciliation bill. Why the impasse? And what does it say about the state of |
| 1:33.9 | congressional Republicans' relationship with Trump? Here to help us answer those questions is |
| 1:39.2 | NPR congressional correspondent Barbara Sprunt. Hi, Barbara. Hi, good morning. Was the immigration |
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