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🗓️ 1 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, |
| 0:07.4 | working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:15.9 | Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa Countow. The House could vote as early as Tuesday on a compromise spending package that would fully reopen the government. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is the key sticking point, as NPR's senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith reports. |
| 0:35.2 | They want immigration enforcement reined in. No more roving patrols of ICE |
| 0:39.3 | agents grabbing people off the streets or using administrative warrants, which don't require a judge to |
| 0:44.6 | sign off. They want agents to remove their masks and identify themselves. And they also want to |
| 0:50.6 | change the rules for use of force to more closely match local and other federal law |
| 0:55.7 | enforcement. You know, President Trump didn't dismiss these ideas out of hand, but said that it |
| 1:00.7 | would be the subject of talks in coming days. And P.R. Tamara Keith reporting, the Justice Department |
| 1:06.4 | says it's done reviewing files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:11.6 | But a top congressional lawmakers says the law requires their review and release of files to continue. |
| 1:17.7 | And Piers-Lew Garrett reports. |
| 1:19.7 | The DOJ released more than 3 million pages of Epstein files Friday, revealing conversations with high-profileile figures like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Commerce Secretary |
| 1:27.5 | Howard Lutnik. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told ABC News Sunday their work is nearly done. |
| 1:33.4 | This review is over. I mean, we reviewed over 6 million pieces of paper, thousands of videos, |
| 1:39.9 | tens of thousands of images, which is what the statute required us to do. |
| 1:44.9 | Congress passed a law requiring the DOJ to release all of its Epstein files, and House Minority |
| 1:49.9 | Leader Hakeem Jeffries, also speaking to ABC, says there's more files to review. |
| 1:54.2 | It's not over, and it will not be over, until there is full and complete transparency, |
| 2:02.7 | as demanded by the survivors. |
| 2:06.7 | Blanche said lawmakers can request to view the unredacted files. |
| 2:09.5 | Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington. |
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