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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump ordered a blockade of all, quote,

sanctioned oil tankers into Venezuela. The move comes after the U.S. seized a tanker off of Venezuela's

coast last week. Venezuela condemned Trump's threat, saying the country would defend its right to

trade and sovereignty.

Today, Venezuela's government ordered the Navy to escort ships from port.

The GOP-led House voted down a pair of Democratic resolutions that sought to curtail Trump's

actions against Venezuela, and PR's Greg Mirey has more on those sanctioned tankers.

We could certainly expect the U.S. to seize more oil

tankers already on this U.S. sanctions list. In fact, the Coast Guard did that just last week with a

ship that was off the coast. Now, a monitoring group tanker trackers said recently that around

30 of the 80 oil tankers in or near the waters of Venezuela were on a U.S.

sanctions list. So these 30 could be potential targets, but others may not be.

NPR's Greg Myrie reporting, four House Republicans are joining Democrats to force a vote on

extending enhanced Affordable Care Act's health subsidies. NPR's Sam

Greenglass reports the pandemic-era subsidies are still on track to expire at the end of the year.

The four Republicans signed onto a petition that would allow 218 members to circumvent House

Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson is pushing his own health bill that would not extend the subsidies.

The four represent competitive districts and said this was a last resort after the Speaker refused to allow a vote on the subsidies.

Even though there's now enough support to force a vote on a three-year extension, that vote is not expected until January.

And a three-year extension failed in the Senate last week.

So the long-term fate of the subsidies is still unclear, even though they are all but certain to lapse,

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