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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. During a Senate hearing today, Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen wouldn't commit to following court orders that find his department is violating the law. |
| 0:12.6 | If we didn't think courts were politicized, then I would probably be able to answer that. But we see courts over and over again that use their bench for their political |
| 0:21.0 | opinion, not just the rule of all. Both Democratic and Republican appointed judges have said |
| 0:26.9 | DHS violated almost 100 court orders this year. The Senate is weighing legislation that would |
| 0:32.6 | fund DHS's immigration operations through the end of President Trump's term in a maneuver that would |
| 0:37.8 | bypass the need for support from Democrats. After a bipartisan political backlash, acting Attorney |
| 0:43.2 | General Todd Blanche says the Trump administration is scrapping plans to create a $1.8 billion |
| 0:48.5 | fund meant to compensate President Trump's allies. The fund was created as part of a settlement |
| 0:53.8 | with the IRS for leaking President Trump's tax. The fund was created as part of a settlement with the IRS for |
| 0:55.1 | leaking President Trump's tax returns. Republicans wanted the plans to be off the table before they |
| 1:00.3 | would move forward with funding Trump's immigration enforcement agencies. Blanche also said that |
| 1:04.8 | administration is not abandoning part of the settlement that gives Trump and his family immunity |
| 1:10.3 | from tax audits. |
| 1:12.2 | President Trump has signed a long-awaited executive order on AI, NPR's Deepa Shiverom reports. |
| 1:17.6 | It asks AI companies to voluntarily address AI security. |
| 1:21.7 | The executive order was expected to come out last month after the Trump administration decided to reverse course and |
| 1:27.9 | tackle some safety measures around AI, which they were staunchly opposed to at first. But then at |
| 1:33.9 | the last minute, Trump pulled back on his plans to sign it, saying he had concerns it would stifle |
| 1:38.9 | the U.S.'s lead in the global AI race. The order he did sign sets out to design a voluntary framework with |
| 1:46.0 | AI developers and asks that the company's share frontier AI models with the federal government |
| 1:51.8 | up to 30 days before they get released. Any actual regulations or mandates around the technology |
| 1:57.9 | would have to come from Congress. Deepa Shiverum, NPR News, the White House. |
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