NPR News: 04-20-2025 5PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Since Donald Trump took office in January, a lot has happened. |
| 0:03.5 | The White House Budget Office ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans. |
| 0:07.9 | The impact of the Trump administration's tariffs is already being felt in President Trump's efforts to radically remake the federal government. |
| 0:16.3 | The NPR Politics Podcast covers it all. |
| 0:19.0 | Keep up with what's happening in Washington and beyond with the NPR Politics Podcast. Listen every day. |
| 0:25.4 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Russia and Ukraine are blaming each other for carrying out attacks and violation of a temporary Easter day ceasefire. |
| 0:36.6 | The truth's proposal was announced in a unilateral move by Russian President Putin yesterday, |
| 0:41.9 | and Pierce Charles Mainz has more from Moscow. |
| 0:44.7 | Even before the Easter ceasefire technically went into effect, both sides voiced skepticism the truth would hold. |
| 0:51.3 | Putin warned of possible Ukrainian provocations and Ukraine's president, |
| 0:55.2 | Vladimir Zelensky, suggested the offer was more gimmick than peace gesture. Today, Russia's |
| 1:00.0 | defense ministry said Ukraine carried out hundreds of artillery and drone strikes on Russian |
| 1:04.3 | occupied territory in Ukraine. Intern Zelensky said Russia continued shelling and assault raids |
| 1:09.7 | across the front line. |
| 1:13.0 | Neither claim could be independently verified. |
| 1:18.8 | The ceasefire attempt comes as President Trump has threatened to abandon efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict if he didn't see immediate progress towards peace. |
| 1:21.7 | Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow. |
| 1:24.5 | Maryland, Senator Chris Van Hollen, says the U.S. is in a constitutional crisis as the Trump administration continues to ignore court orders in the Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia case. |
| 1:35.5 | He made the remark days after he returned from meeting with Abrago-Garcia in El Salvador after the Trump administration admitted they deported him by mistake. |
| 1:44.0 | If you can deny one person their constitutional rights, that is a threat to the constitutional rights of everybody who lives in the United States of America. |
| 1:55.3 | So that's the bottom line. They need to obey the court orders and bring him home so he can have due process. |
| 2:04.4 | Speaking there to NPR's weekend edition, the White House says the Maryland man is never coming back to |
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