Trump's First 100 Days: Promises Made, Promises Kept
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondents Susan Davis and Stephen Fowler, and immigration correspondent Ximena Bustillo.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eric Glass. |
| 0:01.8 | In Lily's family, there's a story everybody knows by heart. |
| 0:05.2 | If this story had never happened... |
| 0:06.8 | All of us wouldn't be here right now. |
| 0:08.6 | Sammy wouldn't be here? |
| 0:09.7 | She'd Anna wouldn't be here. |
| 0:10.8 | Wally wouldn't be here. |
| 0:12.3 | Anyone that we know wouldn't be here. |
| 0:14.9 | So what happens when Lily's mom tells her, this story is not true? |
| 0:20.0 | This American life, surprising stories, every week. |
| 0:27.2 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. This week on the |
| 0:33.5 | pod, we're doing something a little different. Taking a look at some of the policies and |
| 0:38.1 | decisions President Trump has made in the first 100 days of his second term. Today, how immigration |
| 0:45.1 | policy in the United States has changed and quickly. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump |
| 0:50.9 | summarized his immigration policy simply. You're going to have to have mass deportations. The country can't stand it. The country can't handle it. |
| 0:58.3 | We are going to start the largest mass deportation in the history of our country because we have no |
| 1:03.8 | choice. It's not sustainable. Here's all we're going to do. It's going to be called a Trump mass |
| 1:08.9 | deportation because we have no choice. |
| 1:12.0 | Mass deportation. |
| 1:13.6 | Upon taking office, the administration has invoked the Alien Enemies Act |
| 1:17.9 | and used other policy changes to try and move people out of the country fast. |
| 1:23.3 | And severely limited ways people can legally immigrate to the U.S., including removing protected |
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