On the Sunday story from Up First, for decades, the guiding philosophy around how to get homeless people with addictions off the streets has focused on an approach called Housing First.

Now, many conservative lawmakers want this practice scrapped.

We explore what Housing First is good at and where it falls short.

Listen now to the Sunday story on the Up First

podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Talks aimed at ending the war

between Russia and Ukraine are set to get underway this week in Saudi Arabia. President Trump

says Ukraine's president, Philodomr Zelensky, will be involved without

elaborating. And he says all parties want peace in Ukraine, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

I think he wants to end it, and they want to end it fast. Both of them. And Zelensky

wants to end it too.

Trump's speaking to reporters at an airport in Palm Beach today says he's talked to Secretary

of State Marco Rubio, who's on his first trip to the Middle East as the nation's top diplomat and

will head to Saudi Arabia this week. The nation's governors are gathering in Washington this week.

This amid lawsuits launched by several states over the Trump administration's

efforts to reshape the federal government and its workforce. And Pierce Depot Shiverham has more.

Thousands of government employees, including probationary workers or recent hires, are getting laid off

as billionaire Elon Musk tries to cut government spending with his unit, the Department of Government

Efficiency. Speaking alongside Musk, President Trump says Doge has found billions of dollars in waste

and fraud, but didn't provide evidence for where those numbers are coming from. The website for

Doge says receipts for, quote, savings are coming over the weekend, but haven't been posted.

14 states sued Trump and Musk for Musk's, quote, unchecked power over the government and its

workforce. The White House, for its part, says that Musk is complying with federal laws.

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