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NPR News: 06-26-2025 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

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0:00.0

But I thought, wow, this guy goes to work and he does Donald Duck.

0:04.4

I'm Jesse Thorne.

0:05.4

On Bullseye, the one and only Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, on his life's greatest aspiration, doing silly cartoon voices in the moment that he realized his dream.

0:15.5

I did a terrible Donald Duck.

0:17.0

But it made me think, that's what I want to do.

0:19.0

I want to do cartoon voices.

0:21.3

That's on Bullseye for maximum fund.org and NPR.

0:24.8

Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Supreme Court has ruled that states can

0:31.4

cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. The case was advanced by South Carolina. South Carolina public

0:38.9

radio's by Inchector reports the ruling will force low-income patients there to seek care

0:43.1

from a small group of providers in the state who accept Medicaid. Medicaid benefits do not

0:48.4

cover abortion procedures, but they do cover patient access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other testing.

0:56.2

South Carolina House Democratic lawmaker Heather Bauer worries that the decision will make matters

1:01.8

worse for a state with poor health outcomes for lower income residents.

1:06.0

They continue to find ways to chip away at affordable and accessible health care,

1:10.0

and they're going to continue to

1:11.3

do that. Bauer says the court's decision, along with proposed cuts to Medicaid, will compound the

1:16.8

problem. For NPR News, I'm Myon Schachter in Columbia, South Carolina. Senate Republicans have hit a

1:22.7

major roadblock in the effort to pass a massive tax and spending package just days before their self-imposed

1:28.8

deadline of July 4th. MPR's Elena Moore reports the Senate office as determined many of the proposed

1:34.0

changes to Medicaid cannot pass with a simple majority of Republicans. The decision was made by the

1:39.3

Senate parliamentarian, a nonpartisan professional staffer who advises lawmakers on the chamber's rules.

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