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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay. |
0:04.0 | But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill. |
0:08.0 | This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed, |
0:13.0 | allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards. |
0:18.0 | Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. Tell |
0:22.2 | Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more at guard |
0:28.9 | your card.com. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
0:38.5 | The White House freezes billions of dollars of federal funding to Harvard, as the school's |
0:44.2 | administrators refuse a long list of demands from the Trump administration. |
0:49.8 | Meantime, as Americans make it through another tax day, are there any lessons that can |
0:53.9 | be gleaned |
0:54.6 | from their suffering for the current tax debate in Congress? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the |
1:00.8 | Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board |
1:06.7 | member Kate Batchelder O'Dell. The anti-Israel outbursts on American College campuses |
1:12.9 | since the October 7 Hamas massacre have earned public skepticism for higher education. |
1:18.4 | And now the Trump administration is reportedly investigating dozens of universities for civil rights violations. |
1:25.2 | But Harvard, despite about $2.2 billion of federal funding on the line, |
1:31.0 | says it will not give in to a long list of demands made of it. University's president said this. |
1:36.8 | It will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. No government, |
1:42.5 | regardless of which party is in power, should dictate what |
1:45.2 | private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and |
1:50.4 | inquiry they can pursue. Let's also listen to a clip of the White House Press Secretary Carolyn |
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