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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A man who was wrongfully deported to |
| 0:07.9 | El Salvador by the Trump administration is on his way back to the United States. Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia |
| 0:15.3 | is expected to face criminal charges for allegedly transporting migrants into the U.S. In a statement, his attorney says, |
| 0:23.6 | quote, due process means the chance to defend yourself before you're punished, not after. |
| 0:29.9 | President Trump has been promising his tariffs will help make America more prosperous. |
| 0:36.0 | NPR Scott Horsley reports there's evidence the tariffs could help |
| 0:39.9 | the government's bottom line. The Congressional Budget Office, which says if all the tariffs in place |
| 0:45.2 | at the beginning of the week stayed in effect for a full decade, it could cut the federal debt by |
| 0:50.7 | $2.8 trillion, which is in the ballpark of that big tax cut and spending bill |
| 0:56.1 | passed by the House, what it's expected to add to the debt over the next 10 years. In other |
| 1:01.6 | words, the tariffs could help to fill the hole that congressional Republicans have been digging |
| 1:06.3 | with that tax and spending bill. That's NPR Scott Horsley reporting. Some congressional Republicans are |
| 1:12.5 | stepping into the feud between President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, offering their |
| 1:18.4 | take on a clash that escalated by the hour this week. Tempers flared after Musk slammed the massive |
| 1:25.4 | tax cut and spending package that Trump favors, calling it a, quote, disgusting abomination. |
| 1:31.8 | North Carolina Congressman Mark Harris. |
| 1:34.0 | What we've seen happen over the last 72 hours is really just a disagreement that has gone from policy to personal. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office |
| 1:46.7 | estimates the bill would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit. The Labor Department is reporting |
| 1:53.5 | a sharp drop in federal government employment last month. MPRs, Andrea Shue reports 22,000 jobs were lost in May. President Trump has tried |
| 2:04.1 | many things to slash the federal workforce, including dismantling certain agencies, setting in motion |
| 2:10.0 | mass layoffs, and inviting nearly all 2.3 million federal workers to quit. But many of his efforts |
| 2:16.6 | have been challenged by lawsuits. Federal |
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