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| 0:00.0 | At the Super Bowl halftime show, Kendrick Lamar indeed performed his smash disc track Not Like Us |
| 0:06.1 | and brought out Samuel L. Jackson, Serena Williams, and Siza. |
| 0:10.1 | We're recapping the Super Bowl, including why we saw so many celebrities in commercials this year. |
| 0:16.0 | Listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. |
| 0:21.7 | Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. |
| 0:25.4 | The Trump administration is slashing the budget of the General Services Administration in half. |
| 0:31.1 | That could affect nearly all federal property and contracts. |
| 0:35.0 | NPR's Jen McLaughlin reports that's according to sources who spoke to NPR |
| 0:39.3 | on condition of anonymity fearing further retribution from the administration. |
| 0:43.3 | The General Services Administration manages federal real estate across the country, as well as nearly all federal contracts. |
| 0:49.3 | Without it, federal agencies would have a lot of trouble buying things and providing essential public services. |
| 0:55.8 | However, GSA employees have been told their budget is being cut by 50%, spread across contracts, leases, and personnel salaries. |
| 1:04.2 | Employees who remain and who don't take a deferred resignation offer will be subject to heightened surveillance, |
| 1:09.3 | including installation of what's called a key logger, |
| 1:12.0 | software that tracks everything the user types. It could be the model for the rest of the federal |
| 1:17.0 | government going forward. Jen McLaughlin, NPR News. President Trump is sharing more details of his |
| 1:23.3 | vision to take control of post-war Gaza, the Palestinian enclave he's envisioned as the Riviera of the |
| 1:28.9 | Middle East. We're going to have Gaza. We don't have to buy. There's nothing to buy. We will have |
| 1:34.8 | Gaza. No reason to buy. There is nothing to buy. It's Gaza. It's a war-torn area. We're going to take it. |
| 1:43.0 | We're going to hold it. We're going to hold it. We're going to cherish it. |
| 1:45.6 | We're going to get it going eventually where a lot of jobs are going to be created for the people in the Middle East. |
| 1:52.7 | It's going to be for the people in the Middle East. But I think it can be a diamond. It can be an absolute, tremendous asset for the Middle East. |
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