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President Trump rejected Iran's latest proposal to end the war earlier this week.

He called it unacceptable and said the ceasefire was on life support.

But the White House in Tehran did not disclose details of what was in the proposal.

NPR's Aibatrari has more on what the Islamic Republic was asking for.

So there are new demands that didn't exist before this war, and those include, for example, an end to Israel's war on the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, where Israel controls a huge part of the south of Lebanon and where people are being killed daily in Lebanon.

And also, some of these demands now include war reparations, a total lifting of a U.S. naval

blockade out at sea that's keeping Iran from freely being able to export its oil.

NPR's Aibatrami reporting, Interior Secretary Doug Bergam is defending the Trump administration's

proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the National Park Service.

NPR's Kirk Sigler reports a

contentious budget hearing today. Bergam predicted gas prices will start to go down soon.

Interior Secretary Bergam, whose agency regulates drilling on federal land, again tried to blame

the Biden administration, saying its environmental policies led to today's huge spike in gas prices

since President Trump's

Iran invasion. One of many testy exchanges came between Bergam and California Democrat, Jared Hoffman.

These prices are going to drop quickly again because now we actually have supply.

You know, prices are determined based on supply.

Mr. Secretary, again, there's a real disconnect here.

Americans are not celebrating this spike in gas prices that you seem to think is just great.

Democrats also blasted Trump's proposal to cut nearly a billion dollars from national parks,

with one staffer holding up a sign pointing out the president is trying to spend the same amount on a new White House ballroom.

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