GOP spending bill, Europe power outage, tuition-free school closes & more

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

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House Republicans are unveiling the details of a spending bill to implement President Donald Trump’s agenda. The US and Ukraine are unsatisfied with Russia’s three-day ceasefire plan. We’ll tell you why two schools in Milwaukee were temporarily shut down today. We have updates on the unexplained power outage in parts of Europe. Plus, an ambitious experiment in education is ending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, from CNN. This is Madeline Thompson, with five things you need to know for Monday, April 28th.
0:07.0	House Speaker Mike Johnson arrived at the White House this afternoon for a meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss the 26 House map and the president's agenda, according to a source.
0:18.0	Meanwhile, the first details have emerged about the GOP's proposed spending bill.
0:22.6	Various pieces of the larger bill will be cobbled together as one package,
0:26.6	which Johnson hopes to bring to the floor before Memorial Day.
0:29.6	It includes roughly $150 billion for defense programs and tens of billions more in border security measures,
0:36.6	as well as over $1.5 trillion
0:39.0	in spending cuts to federal programs and a multi-trillion dollar overhaul of the U.S. tax code.
0:45.5	The $150 billion in defense programs includes $25 billion for Trump's Golden Dome for missile
0:51.0	defense, $34 billion in shipbuilding, and more than $20 billion in munitions
0:55.5	purchases.
0:56.8	On border security, the House Homeland Security Committee proposes $46.5 billion for new border
1:02.5	barriers, $5 billion for new Customs and Border Protection facilities, and $4 billion for
1:07.5	new customs officials and border personnel.
1:15.7	The U.S. State Department says Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday about, quote, next steps in the Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
1:21.1	That was just before Russian President Vladimir Putin today announced a unilateral three-day
1:26.1	ceasefire in Ukraine next month, lasting
1:28.9	from midnight May 8th to midnight May 11th.
1:32.5	Both Ukraine and the Trump administration have expressed their dissatisfaction with the effort.
1:37.3	CNN's Alex Marquart explains,
1:39.3	The Ukrainians agreed last month to an immediate 30-day ceasefire.
1:43.3	The Ukrainian foreign minister earlier today, he posted on X.
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