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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Senator Chris Von Hollen met yesterday with

Kilmore Obrigo Garcia, a Maryland man who had been sent to a prison in El Salvador illegally.

The Maryland Democrat posted a picture

on X of himself and of Brigo Garcia sitting at a table. Salvador and President Neibu Kalu also posted,

saying now that he's been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody.

The Trump administration has been ordered to facilitate his return.

President Trump says he could fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell if he wants to.

He again criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates. I don't think he's doing the job.

He's too late, always too late. It's slow, and I'm not happy with him. I let him know it,

and if I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me. The Central Bank has a tradition

of political independence. Powell says Trump cannot remove him without cause. The National Science

Foundation is freezing its grant-making process

at the direction of the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge.

As NPR's Jonathan Lampert reports,

the agency has stopped issuing new grants for basic research.

The National Science Foundation issues billions of dollars worth of research grants

to scientists and institutions each year on a rolling basis. On Wednesday, that process came to a

halt after Doge gained access to internal systems, sources told NPR. All proposals that had been

approved for funding were sent back to NSF staff for further review,

though it's unclear why.

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