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NPR News: 04-15-2025 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

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NPR News: 04-15-2025 6PM EDT

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0:00.0

Am I a propagandist?

0:01.7

A truth teller.

0:02.9

An influencer?

0:04.2

There's probably no more contested profession in the world today than mine, journalism.

0:09.3

I'm Brian Reed, and on my show, Question Everything,

0:12.1

we dive head first into the conflicts we're all facing over truth and who gets to tell it.

0:17.4

Listen now to Question Everything, part of the NPR podcast network.

0:22.4

Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. A top House Democrat is asking independent

0:29.8

agency watchdogs to investigate after NPR reporting revealed Doge may have taken sensitive

0:36.3

data from the National Labor Relations Board.

0:38.9

More from NPR, Stephen Fowler.

0:40.5

Ranking member Jerry Connolly has sent a letter to the acting inspector general at the Department of Labor

0:45.1

and the inspector general at the NLRB expressing concern that Doge, quote,

0:49.6

may be engaged in technological malfeasance and illegal activity.

0:54.4

Connolly cites NPR's reporting on a whistleblower at the NLRB who noticed a large spike in

0:59.5

data leave the agency's case management system after Doge gained access.

1:04.4

The letter highlights concerns that Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman, and de facto

1:08.7

head of Doge runs several companies with cases and competitors involved with the NLRB.

1:14.7

Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

1:16.4

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security now says if he returns to the U.S.

1:20.0

Kilmar Armando Abrea Garcia, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious

1:25.0

Salvadoran detention facility, would be deported again.

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