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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. This is the final day of the U.S. Supreme Court's current term. |
0:10.1 | Cases still before the High Court include President Trump's attempt to end automatic birthright citizenship. |
0:16.5 | Senate Republicans are reworking some of the massive tax cut and spending bill now before lawmakers. |
0:22.8 | This after the Senate parliamentarian said the bills proposed changes to how states can tax Medicaid providers |
0:29.0 | does not adhere to rules for passing the bill with a simple majority. |
0:33.8 | NPR's Deidre Walsh has more in what the GOP is doing. |
0:37.5 | They are furiously reworking the language. |
0:40.0 | They argue it's a technical issue and it can be adjusted in a way that it will still be allowed and will still raise enough money to pay for the tax cuts. |
0:47.9 | They may have to adjust the timeline for when some of these changes to the Medicaid program go into effect. |
0:53.3 | There are other provisions that are still being vetted too, you know, one that deals with changes to the Medicaid program go into effect. There are other provisions that are still |
0:54.8 | being vetted, too, one that deals with changes to nutrition programs. One deals with regulations |
0:59.7 | for artificial intelligence. Republicans I talk to say they think they can come up with the plan B |
1:05.2 | and move ahead soon. That's NPR's Tidre Walsh. The House passed its version of the bill by one vote. |
1:11.7 | Later today, the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
1:16.2 | are expected to sign a peace agreement in Washington. Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman. |
1:21.7 | State Department spokesman Tommy Piggott calls it a big deal that could lead to U.S. investments. |
1:27.3 | This is a significant milestone |
1:28.7 | for peace in the Great Lakes region, and a reminder that peace on paper must be matched by |
1:33.8 | implementation on the ground. The war in eastern Congo is a complicated one, with roots in the |
1:39.3 | Rwandan genocide and a fight over the region's mineral riches, A Congolese doctor who won the Nobel Peace Prize |
1:46.2 | for his work in treating victims of sexual violence says he welcomes all efforts to seek peace, |
1:52.0 | but he says this deal is vague and could benefit the aggressors with business deals, whitewashing |
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