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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, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:14.8 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump says he wants to make health care into a Republican |
| 0:21.9 | issue heading into the fall elections. But as NPR, Selena Simmons-Duffin reports, his remarks |
| 0:27.1 | during the State of the Union last night left out many health-related topics he's previously |
| 0:31.5 | highlighted. In this year's speech, President Trump did not mention his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, |
| 0:37.2 | Jr., or the Make America |
| 0:38.9 | Healthy Again effort. |
| 0:40.6 | I think it may signal a pivot away from the high-profile anti-vaccine activism of RFK. |
| 0:50.9 | That's political scientist Jonathan Oberlander of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| 0:56.4 | Their actions are not terribly popular with the American public about vaccination, and I think it's a liability going in to the 2026 midterms. |
| 1:07.5 | Other missing health topics? Measles, abortion, Medicaid cuts, rural health, and |
| 1:13.8 | scientific research. In a statement, the White House told NPR that health care affordability and |
| 1:19.6 | Maha remain top priorities for the Trump administration. Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington. |
| 1:26.5 | Iran is pushing back against President Trump's |
| 1:28.9 | pressure tactics ahead of talks in Geneva over Tehran's nuclear program. Meanwhile, Iranians are |
| 1:34.8 | facing a surge in prices for food and daily essentials, and many families say they can't keep up. |
| 1:40.2 | The U.S. has assembled its biggest deployment of aircraft and warships into the Middle East |
| 1:44.1 | in decades, part of Trump's efforts to get a deal while Iran struggles at home with growing |
| 1:49.3 | dissent following nationwide protests last month. The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee |
| 1:54.5 | wants answers from the Attorney General's office after an NPR investigation found some Epstein |
| 1:59.9 | files are missing from a public database. |
| 2:02.8 | The files relate to allegations of sexual abuse against President Trump. NPR's Stephen Fowler reports. |
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