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The House is preparing to hold a final vote tonight on a Trump administration request to take back $9 billion in already allocated funds, including

more than $1 billion that would have gone to the corporation for public broadcasting.

NPR Scott Newman reports lawmakers have until Friday to pass it.

The $1.1 billion was destined for NPR, PBS, and their member stations.

But last month, the White House sent a rare request to Congress, known as a rescission, to claw back

the funds, as well as $7.9 billion in foreign aid funding. The Trump administration has been

highly critical of NPR in particular, today calling it, quote, a propaganda voice for the left.

NPR strongly denies that accusation. The Senate last night passed an amended version of the bill,

and House lawmakers must either approve the changes by midnight Friday or allow the rescission to expire.

Scott Newman, NPR News, Washington.

Immigrants' rights groups are suing the Trump administration for not allowing attorneys

to give legal counsel to people help at a detention center in the Florida Evergrades.

NPR's Greg Allen reports it's one of three lawsuits challenging the use of a facility that

officials are calling alligator alcatraz.

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