On NPR's Wildcard podcast, Podma Lakshmi says she feels better at 55 than 25.

I wouldn't go back to my 20s for all the money in the world.

I really wouldn't.

I was so hard on myself about every little thing or every, you know, imperfection.

Watch or listen to that wildcard conversation on the NPR app or on YouTube at NPR Wildcard.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

The Senate could vote later today on a bipartisan funding deal to end the government shutdown.

NPR's Deirdre Walsh reports the bill also needs to clear the House.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the new package extends spending levels through the NPR's Deirdre Walsh reports the bill also needs to clear the House. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the new package extends spending levels through the end of January,

but it also includes several full-year funding bills impacting key programs.

Year-long funding for SNAP, for WIC, for veterans, for essential farm programs,

and for a number of other critical priorities will be met.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has advised lawmakers to return to Washington, and if the Senate acts quickly,

the House could take up the deal as early as Wednesday. Most House and Senate Democratic leaders

panned the deal because it does not address expiring health care subsidies.

But Democrats who helped craft it say they did get a commitment for a Senate vote on health care legislation by mid-December.

Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol.

President Trump says he wants to issue what he's calling $2,000 dividends from tariff revenue.

But as NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports, the Treasury Secretary says there's no formal proposal yet.

President Trump on social media has twice in recent days suggested the payments for low and middle income people.

However, on ABCs this week on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the money

may not take the form of payments, but could simply include tax cuts already passed into law.

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