NPR News: 05-19-2025 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is Irid Glass, the host of This American Life. |
| 0:02.9 | So much is changing so rapidly right now with President Trump in office. |
| 0:07.3 | It feels good to pause for a moment sometimes and look around at what's what. |
| 0:10.7 | Just try and do that. |
| 0:11.4 | We've been finding these incredible stories about right now that are funny and have feeling, |
| 0:16.1 | and you get to see people everywhere making sense of this new America that we find ourselves in. |
| 0:21.4 | This American life, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:24.8 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. |
| 0:29.2 | The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end temporary legal status |
| 0:35.1 | for 350,000 Venezuelans, reversing the Biden administration's decision |
| 0:40.4 | to extend the short-term protections. |
| 0:43.3 | Zemperos Alameda Bistillo explains the decision could lead to deportations. |
| 0:46.7 | The Trump administration sought to reverse temporary protected status for Venezuelans after |
| 0:51.0 | former President Biden extended it in 2023. |
| 0:54.2 | A federal judge paused the White House's plans a week before protections were scheduled to expire. |
| 0:59.6 | The Trump administration appealed that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court in an emergency application. |
| 1:04.9 | The court didn't weigh in on whether the Trump administration could end TPS for Venezuelaans permanently. |
| 1:10.2 | That continues to be litigated in |
| 1:12.0 | lower courts. Huma Bustillo, NPR News, Washington. House Republicans during a rare Sunday session |
| 1:17.5 | were able to push ahead President Trump's so-called big beautiful bill of tax breaks, spending cuts, |
| 1:23.3 | and border security provisions, package moving through a key House committee. |
| 1:31.0 | However, House Speaker Mike Johnson has admitted more work needs to be done. |
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