Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran continues to escalate. Yesterday, Israel attacked a crucial Iranian natural gas field. And then Iran responded today with a strike on the world's biggest liquefied natural gas complex in Qatar. Now the Trump administration is proposing $200 billion in additional funding for the war.

Thomas Wright served as senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council under

President Biden. He says it's unlikely Iran will surrender anytime soon.

I think Iran only wants the war to end when it has some guarantee that he won't be back

in six or eight or ten months

to strike again if it rebuilds. I think they want to impose costs on the U.S. and in Israel

to deter a future strike. And so I don't think they would necessarily accept an unconditional cessation.

Global crude oil prices continue to swing during the war, hovering around $107, and gasoline

prices in the U.S. continue to climb. The U.S. has pulled many levers to try to bring prices

down and is considering others. But as NPR's Kamilla Dominovsky reports, the scale of the disruption

to global oil markets is profound. About 20 million barrels per day typically passes through the

Strait of Hermuz. Right now, maybe 5 million is making it around the straight, like through pipelines.

Dan Pickering is the chief investment officer at Pickering Energy Partners.

15 million barrels a day isn't easy to offset anywhere.

That's the total production of the United States and we're the biggest producer in the

world.

There is no easy fix.

Tapping stockpiles and easing U.S. sanctions only partly fills the gap.

And waiving the Jones Act, which mandates goods traveling between U.S. ports be sent on American-built ships, might ease gasoline prices by a penny or less.

Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.

The Trump administration announced today that it will move significant management of the nation's federal student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, continuing President Trump's effort to shrink

and eventually shudder the Education Department. NPR Sequoia Corrillo reports. In the administration's

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