It's Friday, April 18th.

I'm Aaron Ryan, in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day, the show for people who spent

the last hour before bed last night scrolling Zillow listings for K-218B, the faraway

exoplanet identified by the James Webb Telescope that scientists say shows signs of life

possibly existing on it.

So far, nothing in my price range, but I'll keep looking.

On today's show, President Donald Trump meets with Italy's prime minister to talk over trade

and ostensibly kiki over their mutual hatred for migrants. And the Supreme Court says it will hear

arguments in Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship, a thing that is literally written in our

Constitution. And on that note, the Trump administration is running through our constitutional

rights like a bull unleashed on the streets of Pamplona. For days now, the high stakes back and

forth between the administration,

the courts, and the Constitution over the wrongful deportation of a Maryland man has,

understandably, sucked a lot of the oxygen from the room. Meanwhile, the party in power is

working overtime to assure that whatever oxygen is left in said room is pumped full of

unregulated chemicals. That was a segue, right? Guys, it's been a long

week. Here's what's happened since Monday. The administration got the ball rolling on gutting a key

part of the Endangered Species Act, so habitat destruction would no longer qualify as harm to threatened

plants and animals. It stopped construction on a major offshore wind farm off the coast of Long Island. Donald Trump

famously hates windmills. It canceled a $3 billion program to encourage farmers to adopt climate-friendly

practices, and it kick-started the process of ending a Biden-era rule that aimed to put conservation

on par with things like drilling as a valid public land use. Again, that's just this week. It's like

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