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| 0:00.0 | The House of Representatives has approved a White House request to claw back two years of previously approved funding for public media. |
| 0:08.1 | The recisions package now moves on to the Senate. |
| 0:11.2 | This move poses a serious threat to local stations and public media as we know it. |
| 0:16.6 | Please take a stand for public media today at goacpr.org. Thank you. |
| 0:24.6 | Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. |
| 0:29.4 | Inflation ticked up last month as the impact of President Trump's tariffs started to show up in consumer prices. |
| 0:36.9 | NPR Scott Horsley reports the cost of living in June was up 2.7% from a year ago. |
| 0:43.5 | Prices rose 3 tenths of a percent between May and June, which is a sharper increase than the previous month. |
| 0:48.9 | Rising rents were the biggest driver of inflation, but the price of clothing and appliances also rose, |
| 0:54.8 | which economists say likely reflects the early impact of President Trump's tariffs. Trump has imposed taxes of at least |
| 0:59.5 | 10% on nearly everything the U.S. buys from other countries with higher tariffs on goods from China. |
| 1:05.2 | The president's threatened substantially higher tariffs on goods from many countries beginning |
| 1:09.2 | August 1st. Some things got cheaper last month, including new and used cars and airline tickets, but |
| 1:14.6 | gasoline and grocery prices were up in June. |
| 1:17.3 | Electricity was also more expensive as hot summer weather boosted demand for air conditioning. |
| 1:21.9 | Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington. |
| 1:23.6 | The Republican-led Senate is taking up a package of roughly $9 billion in spending cuts requested by the Trump administration. |
| 1:32.4 | NPR's Valt-Matanis reports a major global health program that provides HIV-AIDS treatment is being spared from the cutbacks. |
| 1:40.1 | PEPFAR was launched by President George W. Bush and has been credited with saving 25 million lives |
| 1:45.8 | by helping control the spread of HIV AIDS around the world. The Trump administration sought to cut |
| 1:50.9 | $400 million in PEPFAR funds, along with billions of dollars in foreign assistance funds for |
| 1:56.4 | global health and humanitarian assistance programs. But some Republican senators voiced concerns about |
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