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The fate of federal heat safety rules under Trump

Make Me Smart

Marketplace

News, Business

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Many Americans are enduring a brutal heatwave this week. For those who work outside, the heat can be deadly. On today’s show, we’ll check in on a proposed heat safety law that would require employers to offer more breaks when the temperature rises above a certain threshold. Under the Trump administration, the law’s future is uncertain. And, the housing market can’t seem to break out of its slump. Plus, the lengths some Americans will go to score some Indian mangoes.


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0:00.0

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1:01.3

Hey everybody, I'm Rima Grace. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.

1:06.9

And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thanks everyone for joining us. It is Wednesday, June 25th.

1:11.9

Yes, today we are going to get into some news, then do some smiles, the usual.

1:16.0

Kimberly, what caught your attention today?

1:17.9

It's the thing that I absolutely cannot ignore if I even dare to step outside, which is how ungodly hot it is outside.

1:27.8

And, you know...

1:29.4

What's it like over there exactly?

1:31.0

You're in D.C. I'm in Oregon, so it's very different.

1:34.2

So I'm running the dehumidifier in my apartment

1:36.8

and pulling out something like, I don't know, 20 gallons of water out of my apartment. Maybe that's exaggerating. It's probably more like 10 gallons of

1:48.0

water out of my apartment per day, but I have to like empty the dehumid of fire like every couple

1:53.5

hours. It's a lot of humidity. It's a lot of heat. And, you know, God bless air conditioning for all

2:00.1

of its, you know, impacts on the environment. But, you know god bless air conditioning for all of its you know impacts on the environment but um

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