Trump's Hormuz Deadline, Congress DHS Funding, ICE In Airports
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
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Congress returns this week with airport lines growing and TSA agents going unpaid, as President Trump links any DHS deal to a long list of new demands including voter ID and ending mail-in voting.
And hundreds of ICE agents have been deployed to help address chaos in airports across the U.S., but mixed messages have left questions about what they will actually do ease security lines.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump is ordering the U.S. military to hold off on striking Iran's power plants for five days. |
| 0:08.0 | He's citing, quote, productive talks between both sides, but Iran says there's no such dialogue. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Michelle Martin. That's A. Martinez. And this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.9 | Congress returns this week with a familiar mess on its hands. It's day 38 of a partial |
| 0:25.6 | government shutdown that's left TSA agents unpaid and with long security lines at some airports. |
| 0:30.7 | Now President Trump is telling Senate Republicans no DHS deal unless Democrats agreed to |
| 0:35.7 | his voting reforms. And Trump's fix for the airport chaos, send in ICE. |
| 0:41.1 | Starting today, immigration and customs enforcement agents will be at airports across the country. |
| 0:46.2 | What can they actually do to speed up those security lines? |
| 0:48.5 | Stay with us. |
| 0:49.1 | We'll give you all the news you need to start your day. |
| 1:15.2 | President Trump made a surprise announcement today about talks to end the war with Iran. |
| 1:23.0 | We have had very, very strong talks. We'll see where they lead. We have major points of agreement. |
| 1:25.1 | I would say almost all points of agreement. |
| 1:28.8 | He also said he was ordering the U.S. military to hold off on attacking Iranian power plants. NPR's Daniel Estrin is covering the war from Tel Aviv. Daniel, |
| 1:35.2 | so what do we know about these conversations President Trump says are going on between Iran and the U.S.? |
| 1:39.8 | Well, we should talk about the context first. President Trump had been warning that the U.S. |
| 1:44.7 | would strike Iranian power plants if Iran didn't fully open the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers. |
| 1:51.9 | And he gave a 48-hour deadline on that. It was supposed to end tonight. And the Iranians were |
| 1:58.1 | threatening to retaliate by attacking energy infrastructure in the Mideast. |
| 2:02.3 | This has been a huge issue in the war, the Strait of Hormuz crisis. |
| 2:06.2 | It has rattled the global oil and gas trade. |
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