NPR News: 03-27-2026 8AM EDT
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Krova Coleman. |
| 0:03.7 | Early this morning, the Senate agreed to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security. |
| 0:08.3 | Senators voted to fund DHS agencies, including TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard, |
| 0:13.8 | but not the DHS's immigration enforcement operations. |
| 0:17.4 | That includes ICE. |
| 0:18.8 | The measure now goes to the House. |
| 0:20.6 | The partial DHS shutdown has |
| 0:22.5 | led to long airport security lines. TSA agents are calling out or quitting because they're not |
| 0:28.4 | getting paid. NPR's Joel Rose has more. The acting head of TSA, Ha Wyn McNeil, told Congress this |
| 0:35.1 | week that the strain on the workforce is growing. |
| 0:41.4 | Some are sleeping in their cars, selling their blood in plasma, and taking on second jobs to make ends meet, all while being expected to perform at the highest level |
| 0:46.5 | when in uniform to protect the traveling public. |
| 0:49.5 | More than 400 TSA officers have already quit. |
| 0:52.8 | Thousands more have called out sick, leading to historically |
| 0:55.5 | long wait times at some airports on busy travel days. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington. |
| 1:01.5 | For a second time, President Trump has delayed his deadline to bomb Iran's power plants. He says |
| 1:07.1 | the new deadline is Monday, April 6th, for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz to shipping. |
| 1:12.6 | Trump cited ongoing talks with Iranian officials, but Iran says there are no ongoing talks. |
| 1:18.8 | Officials in Pakistan say they have exchanged messages between both sides. |
| 1:23.4 | And Pierce-Chammer Keith says administration officials claim Iran is looking for an off-ramp. |
| 1:29.2 | Trump's Mideast envoy, Steve Whitkoff, said during that cabinet meeting yesterday that the U.S. has a 15-point action list that forms a framework for a peace deal. |
| 1:40.7 | Iran has its own set of demands, and we don't have a lot of specifics, but they don't |
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