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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. President Trump says the U.S. is pledging |
| 0:08.4 | $10 billion to help rebuild Gaza. In addition, he says other countries are promising to contribute |
| 0:14.7 | almost $7 billion. The money will be managed by the President's Board of Peace. Trump hosted the |
| 0:20.6 | board's first meeting yesterday |
| 0:22.0 | in Washington across from the State Department, where the commitments were announced. This comes amid |
| 0:27.3 | efforts to implement the next phase of a seized fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. That deal was |
| 0:33.5 | brokered by the U.S. After the Board of Peace meeting, President Trump traveled to Georgia yesterday where a special election is underway to replace former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. |
| 0:46.3 | Raul Bali with member station WABE has more. |
| 0:50.2 | Speaking at this steel processing plant, Trump focused much of his speech on his economic policy, |
| 0:56.6 | including tariffs, taxes, and manufacturing. It included this claim. |
| 1:01.6 | You notice, what word have you not heard over the last two weeks? |
| 1:06.1 | Affordability. Because I've won. I've won affordability. |
| 1:11.1 | Trump also blasted the use of mail-in ballots and opposition of voter ID proposals. |
| 1:17.4 | Several key races here have wide-ranging implications. |
| 1:21.4 | The special election comes as Trump looks to shore up his razor-thin majority in the House with MAGA loyalists. |
| 1:27.3 | And U.S. Senator John Ossoff will be fighting to keep his seat... Trump looks to shore up his razor-thin majority in the House with Maga loyalists, |
| 1:31.3 | and U.S. Senator John Ossoff will be fighting to keep his seat as the only Democratic incumbent on the ballot in a state won by Trump. |
| 1:37.0 | For NPR News, I'm Raul Bally in Rome, Georgia. |
| 1:40.9 | President Trump is nominating his former personal lawyer for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. |
| 1:48.8 | As NPR's Nina Totenberg reports, Justin Smith has played a key role in a variety of Trump's legal disputes. |
| 1:56.5 | In 2023, Smith represented Trump in his unsuccessful efforts to overturn a $5 million jury verdict, |
| 2:04.4 | finding him liable for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll. |
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