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Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota.

As NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports, the rarely used law allows a president to deploy the military, not just the National Guard, but the U.S. Army, against civilians.

Trump posted on social media this morning that he will invoke the act if Minnesota politicians do not stop

demonstrators from, quote, attacking the Patriots of ICE. President George H.W. Bush was the last

president to invoke the law in 1992 in response to violence in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted

police officers in the brutal beating of Rodney King. However, it's also known for when President Dwight

Eisenhower in 1957 called up federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Hours prior to the president's post, the Department of Homeland Security posted that an agent in

Minneapolis had shot a person in the leg. They said the person is in the country illegally, resisted

arrest, and attacked the officer. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House. The Trump

administration disrupted the country's mental health and addiction treatment systems this week.

Late Tuesday night, it abruptly cut more than $2 billion in grants only to reverse course under

public pressure 24 hours later.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports the whiplash has left health care providers reeling.

The targeted programs include drug courts, Narcan distribution, and suicide intervention.

For providers, chaos, complete chaos.

Nicole Dawsey is executive director of the Addiction Prevention Coalition

in Birmingham. We are really taken a hard look at the services that we provide and what we are

deeming mission critical. I will also say that the impact is hope, too. As cheesy as that sounds, we were able to come together

yesterday and say this is unacceptable. Dossi says the administration's reversal shows democracy can

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